A New fedora user question
Jeff Maxwell
vohnmaxwell at bellsouth.net
Fri Nov 7 16:03:48 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:05 -0800, Richard England wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > Tim:
> >
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >
> >
> > Richard England:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Was your system a fresh install, or did you update one version of Fedora
> > to the next over the top? Mine was a fresh install. Over-the-top
> > installs sometimes make a mess of things.
> >
Well, I have a fresh install of Fedora 9 and when I've accessed a WEB
page requesting Adobe Flash, I followed the instructions to install it.
After installation, Fire Fox plug-ins still do not register that Adobe
Flash is installed. If I attempt to install it a second time, I have
the message saying it is installed. I may be naive, but it seems to me
that during the install (either rpm or yum) that some element did not
get moved into the Fire Fox plug-in directory. Therefore, Fire Fox does
not know that it exists on the system. Any help to address this would
be appreciated.
Thanks.
Jeff Maxwell
> >
> This machine currently has F8 and I believe it was an upgrade from 7.
> Previous Flash (v9) was done before there was a yum repo, I believe.
>
> If there are two versions installed and old version is removed from the
> plugin files, then the new one will be "seen" and used. I just tested
> this out on my F9 machine.
>
> I agree, the yum repo would be a better bet since yum will help you by
> replacing instead of just adding.
>
> ~~R
>
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