On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:48:50 Michael Klinosky wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that > > flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but > > yum tells me that no such package is available. I must need a different > > repo, I think, but what? Currently I have > > > > ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ > > adobe-linux-i386.repo epel-testing.repo > > CentOS-Base.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo > > CentOS-Media.repo mirrors-rpmforge > > epel.repo rpmforge.repo > > > > I suspect that c5-media repo is discontinued. I've seen no error messages > > apart from 'No package libflashplayer available.' In theory I have > > installed the adobe flash-player, but apparently not. I'm stuck. Any > > help, please? > > Well, I'll relate what I know. I checked out the website, selected > 'Jazz', play hi-fi, and it worked. I didn't use the m3u feature. > > I checked Firefox's Add-ons; under Plugins, I have Shockwave Flash 10.0 > r22. Just to really check it out, I clicked 'Disable', and the music > stopped. > I didn't have any suitable plugin. I realised that, but google gave me the wrong name of the package, which is why I failed. Although it doesn't explain why the adobe repo failed to install their flashplayer. > [mykolas@sr1220 ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ > adobe-linux-i386.repo CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Media.repo > mirrors-rpmforge rpmforge.repo > > Also, I did the multimedia thing - > <http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS> I hadn't seen that particular page. I've bookmarked it for the future, thanks. This box normally just acts as a file/print/mail server - I don't normally do desktop-type things on it. It's been running CentOS for around 2 years and this is the first time I've tried to use it in this way. Thanks for answering Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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