Please test if your Fedora 7 has this bug...

[Kam Leo]

On 6/4/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I posted this bug to bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242175
>
> you can see the video and the bug here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ayaoEUHZ4
>
>
>
> The issue is really easy to reproduce;
>
> shutdown firefox
>
> mv .mozilla .mozilla.bkp
> mv .macromedia .macromedia.bkp
>
> <repeat 5 times>
>
> and then launch firefox and go to http://www.youtube.com - and try to
> install flash plugin.
>
> Close Firefox
>
> rm .mozilla
> rm .macromedia
>
> </repeat 5 times>
>
> and then restore your firefox settings from backup:
>
> rm .mozilla
> rm .macromedia
>
> mv .mozilla.bkp .mozilla
> mv .macromedia.bkp .macromedia
>
> then report back to bugzilla (or here on the mailing list) how many
> installs of flash succeeded and how much of them failed.
>
> this is an easy task, and then we will see if this is a issue happened by some
> off chance only to me or this is a bug.
>
> I don't see how you don't see the problem here. I posted a bug also
> for fedora 7 test 4, it happened there also... and how it happened
> again... so you draw your own conclusions...
>
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Installing flashplayer that way has never worked for me. I just create
a yum repo for flash install/upgrade. That way all users get the same
version of flash. No duplicates. No wasted drive space.