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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