Re: the 'Software Installer' and Adobe Flash

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On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Assume a new installation (Fedora 21 branched) where Adobe Flash Player is
> not installed yet.
>
> Visiting a website that requires "the newest version of the Flash Plugin",
> there is an option to "Download" that plugin. Following the link to Adobe,
> Linux is correctly recognized by default,
>   http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/download/?installer=Flash_Player_11.2_for_other_Linux_%28YUM%29_64-bit&standalone=1
> but choosing the "Yum" version and trying to install it with Fedora's
> "Software Installer", this doesn't lead much further.
>
> Obviously, one only gets the Yum .repo definition package from Adobe, but
> if one must install the Flash Plugin manually, the "Software Installer"
> application at least ought to make that possible, too. It doesn't find
> anything when searching for "flash". Looking closer, it doesn't find
> anything at all.
>
> What is broken here?

The flash package lacks an appdate file ...
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