I have been using firefox on a linux desktop since last week. Lot of sites on internet are using flash player on it , so everytime I hit the site, it reported missing plugin. When I tried to install the plugin through firefox, it errored out and asked me to install manually. Finally today I decided to install it using manual approach. To do so I went to http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer to download the required binaries.
Surprisingly today I noticed a yum based install for it. I thought of going with yum as it takes care of resolving dependency. On selecting yum based rpm, it downloaded adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm. This rpm needs to be installed
rpm -ivh adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm warning: adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID f6777c67 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:adobe-release-x86_64 ########################################### [100%]
Next step is to use yum to install the flash-player. Before that I did search to check the plugin using yum search flash-plugin
flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.3 i386 flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.3 i386 flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.3 i386 flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.3 i386 flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.3 i386 flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.3 i386 flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.3 i386 flash-plugin.x86_64 : Adobe Flash Player 11.2 flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.3 i386 flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.2 i386 flash-plugin.i386 : Adobe Flash Player 10.3 i386
Finally installed it using yum install flash-plugin and restarted firefox
Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.233-release set to be updated ---> Package flash-plugin.i386 0:10.3.183.19-1.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: flash-plugin x86_64 11.2.202.233-release adobe-linux-x86_64 6.9 M flash-plugin i386 10.3.183.19-1.el5 updates 4.9 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 2 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 12 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/2): flash-plugin-10.3.183.19-1.el5.i386.rpm | 4.9 MB 00:07 (2/2): flash-plugin-11.2.202.233-release.x86_64.rpm | 6.9 MB 00:48 warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID f6777c67 Importing GPG key 0xF6777C67 "Adobe Systems Incorporated (Linux RPM Signing Key) " from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux Is this ok [y/N]: y Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: flash-plugin ######################### [1/2] Installing: flash-plugin ######################### [2/2] Installed: flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.233-release flash-plugin.i386 0:10.3.183.19-1.el5 Complete!