A New fedora user question

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 23:28 -0800, Richard England wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:21 -0600, rlengland at verizon.net wrote:
> >   
> >> I ran into a situation with Firefox where I had an older version of
> >> the Adobe flash plugin loaded and loaded a newer one thinking it would
> >> over-write the old one.  It loaded in a new location and I ended up 
> >> having two of them installed
> >>     
> >
> > How did you install them to get more than one?  I've not struck that
> > problem.  I installed the Flash player using the Adobe RPM, and update
> > it with "yum update", along with everything else.
> >
> >   
> That's a question I wish I knew the answer to.  I've suspected that it 
> may have been drug along during and update but I'm certain.  To the best 
> of my recollection, however, I simply installed two versions from Adobe. 
> I have also wondered if they changed to install location but I've spent 
> no time investigating.
> 
> I should really keep better logs on that machine.

Adobe has a yum repo which works with Fedora. It's better to use this
than downloading and installing the RPMs by hand.

poc