Fedora 12: No flash plugin

[Simon Schneebeli]

On 12/14/2009 10:17 PM, Simon Schneebeli wrote:
>
> On 12/14/2009 10:13 PM, Craig White wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 22:07 +0100, Simon Schneebeli wrote:
>>>>> I'm progressing (with sudo):
>>>>>
>>>>> [root at sangam simon]# sudo yum repolist
>>>>> Loaded plugins: presto, protectbase, refresh-packagekit
>>>>> repo id                   repo name                              
>>>>> status
>>>>> fedora                    Fedora 12 - i386
>>>>> enabled: 15,366
>>>>> rpmfusion-free            RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free
>>>>> enabled:    383
>>>>> rpmfusion-free-updates    RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free - Upda
>>>>> enabled:    177
>>>>> rpmfusion-nonfree         RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree
>>>>> enabled:    124
>>>>> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree - U
>>>>> enabled:     97
>>>>> updates                   Fedora 12 - i386 - Updates
>>>>> enabled:  2,111
>>>>> repolist: 18,258
>>>>> [root at sangam simon]#
>>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> no you're not... you're root - see the pwd that says root? see the
>>>> prompt?  (#) you're root
>>>>
>>>> putting 'sudo' into commands when you are already root is meaningless
>>>> and a waste of 4 letters and a space.
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> At least I got the information on the repositories ;-) . As it seams,
>>> the adobe repository isn't yet properly installed. Here again what
>>> happens if I follow your instructions:
>>>
>>> [root at sangam simon]# su - -c '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]# su - -c 'rpm --import
>>> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux'
>>> error: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux: import failed.
>>> [root at sangam simon]#
>>>
>>> Does this help?
>> ----
>> sort of doesn't make sense but try this (as root)...
>>
>> rpm -e adobe-release-i386
>>
>> rpm -ivh \
>> http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm 
>>
>>
>> rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
>>
>> 3 commands...the middle 1 is 2 lines but one command... let us know what
>> happens
>>
>> Craig
>>
> Bad news:
>
> [root at sangam simon]# rpm -e adobe-release-i386
> warning: /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo saved as 
> /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo.rpmsave
> [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%]
>    1:adobe-release-i386     
> ########################################### [100%]
> [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.
> [root at sangam simon]#
>
>
> Simon
>

Well, I have it now, my flash plugin. I did do it the ugly way: I just 
downloaded it from adobe's webpage...

Many thanks for all your help, particularly Craig White. I guess I'm 
going to buy me a good book on Fedora soon. Although there are some 
difficulties, I still have a slight preference to it over Ubuntu...

Simon