Fedora 12: No flash plugin

[Simon Schneebeli]

On 12/14/2009 08:31 PM, Craig White wrote:
> 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
>
>
>    
Hm...

[root at sangam simon]# yum install flash-plugin
Loaded plugins: presto, protectbase, refresh-packagekit
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Setting up Install Process
No package flash-plugin available.
Nothing to do
[root at sangam simon]# yum install AdobeReader-enu
Loaded plugins: presto, protectbase, refresh-packagekit
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Setting up Install Process
No package AdobeReader-enu available.
Nothing to do
[root at sangam simon]#

???