Fedora 12: No flash plugin

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 20:03 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote:
> 
> 
> >>> Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash I tried to install the 
> >>> Flash
> >>> plugin. But when I try
> >>>
> >>>                 u -c 'rpm -ivh adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm'
> >>>
> >>> I get the following:
> >>>
> >>>                error: open of adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm 
> >>> failed: No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>>
> >>> Did anyone experience a similar problem?
> >> Anyone who cherry-picked which parts of the directions they felt like
> >> following would have a similar problem, yes.  There's a reason the
> >> sentence BEFORE that tells you to download the RPM first.
> >>
> Something is still not working. Here's what I get:
> 
> [root at sangam simon]# rpm -ivh 
> http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm 
> 
> Retrieving 
> http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
>      package adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch is already installed
> [root at sangam simon]# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
> error: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux: import failed.
> 
> Any idea what is wrong?
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> PS: As I try out Fedora after having used Ubuntu for over three years, 
> there is one thing I appreciated about Ubuntu: The centralisation of 
> repositories. I think it happened about twice that I had to add 
> repositories to the standard ones. On my computer, I just need Flash, 
> mp3 and video-codecs. On Ubuntu that takes now about three clicks and 
> they are installed. I know, this is also a question of philosophy and a 
> legal considerations, but still, ... For the rest, Fedora works quite a 
> bit better on my computer than Ubuntu.
----
Ubuntu and Fedora do some things differently - no big deal.

If you've already got the adobe-release package installed, you must have
already installed the key. I don't see a problem with the above.

yum install flash-plugin
yum install AdobeReader_enu

? what doesn't work?

Craig


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