cnn flash video

[Antti J. Huhtala]

to, 2007-12-20 kello 14:00 -0500, David Boles kirjoitti:

> Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> > to, 2007-12-20 kello 11:41 -0500, David Boles kirjoitti:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > Okay, that's what I thought. In principle I have the necessary packages
> > installed but apparently the installation went amiss somehow.
> 
> 
> Hmm... do you have any idea what went wrong? Did you install the
> tarball, the rpm, or the yum.repo configuration. We can start from there
> if you tell me that. And how you did it as best you can remember.
> 
Sorry for the delay, David. One has to sleep at times..

OK, now about my flash plugin installation: My memory isn't what it used
to be, but IIRC I used Mauriat Miranda's "Personal Fedora 8 Installation
Guide" at http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f8.html#flash
I've generally found Mauriat's advice valid since FC5 or thereabouts.

In this case unfortunately I installed lots of things at once (mplayer,
RealPlayer, kaffeine, amarok etc), so the details are a bit hazy as far
as Macromedia Flash installation is concerned. In principle, all of it
should be recorded in yum.log but the only thing I find there now is:

Dec 05 01:52:09 Installed: flash-plugin - 9.0.115.0-release.i386

AIUI, the flash-plugin needs nspluginwrapper to work in x86_64 systems.
To that end, I have (from yum.log):

Nov 27 14:05:05 Updated: nspluginwrapper - 0.9.91.5-12.fc8.x86_64
Nov 27 14:05:23 Updated: nspluginwrapper - 0.9.91.5-12.fc8.i386

This seems to indicate I didn't install Macromedia Flash plugin "all-in-
one-go". Instead, it is a combination of a new install of flash-plugin,
updated nspluginwrapper and perhaps some files from my previous F7
installation (I backed up my F7 home directory before clean installation
of F8 and copied the old home directory to F8 afterwards).
> 
> > I mentioned java just to make sure. Certainly I used what applied to me.
> 
> 
> If you really *need* for Java to work it is possible to remove the
> Icedtea packages and install a Sun Java rpm that works well but just not
> 100% clear of license problems.
> 
I have no problem with that. In F7 I used Sun Java all the time. Now
I've been interested in seeing how well IcedTea works with different
Java applications (and it *does* work with 64-bit Firefox). Even Sun's
Java test page says: "Congratulations! You have a working Java system" -
or words to that effect.

> 
> > Sorry for not acknowledging your apology. Duly noted now...
> > If I'm not mistaken, I also wrote them a few months ago and CNN improved
> > "their ways" almost overnight. I don't think my protest had much effect
> > - other than it was one of many written to them at the time.
> > Sure. I was hoping someone more knowledgeable would butt in and explain
> > what's what with CNN. I may even have been a bit provocative in order to
> > achieve that end. It worked ;)
> 
> Not a problem. I was hoping that not everyone here thought that I a
> horse's hindquarters.
> 
Probably not. Anyone's image is presumably formed in the course of time,
not because of one particular response. You have amply shown that you
usually know what you are talking about...

> Linux. It can be frustrating can it not?  ;-)
> 
At times, yes. It is all relative, however. I spent several years trying
to fix various problems in corporate VAX/VMS - Windows NT4 workstation
environment. It was sometimes frustrating, too. Therefore I switched to
(almost) entirely (Fedora) Linux and haven't really regretted a bit. I
don't even want to switch from Fedora to CentOS or Ubuntu though I have
some other Linux distros on CDs.

> - --
> 
> 
>   David
> 
BR, Antti