fedora 9 / 10 and flashplayer 9 /10

[Paul Newell]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 19:07 -0800, Paul Newell wrote:
>   
>> I am trying to download Adobe Flashplayer onto my F9 machine. Read 
>> Fedora's posting on why its not included and makes sense.
>>
>> However, most of the notes on line are for F10 and its obvious that 
>> there is a change on the fedora end with the deprecation of 
>> libflashsupport (if I have the name correct). On the Adobe side, I can 
>> find different instruction for yum installation for player 9 and player 
>> 10. But they have notes that FlashPlayer 9 works for RHEL3 and RHEL4 and 
>> FlashPlayer 10 works for RHEL5. Where Fedora 9 is in that mix is not on 
>> their doc pages.
>>
>> If I am on F9, do I need to stay with FlashPlayer 9 or can I download 
>> FlashPlayer 10? I know that upgrading to f10 means I can use FlashPlayer 10.
>>
>> Also, all the docs on Fedora Wiki were for Fedora 10 and flash, I wasn't 
>> able to find a page for Fedora 9.
>>     
> ----
> probably easiest to just install their repository package...
>
> rpm -ivh \
> http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
>
> and then...
>
> yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport
>
> This would install both flash-plugin and the support to make sound work
> in flash on Fedora 9. Fedora 10 doesn't need the libflashsupport
> package.
>
> This way, you will always get the newest version of flash-plugin
> suitable for your system which I have to believe would be
> flash-plugin-10.0.15.3
>
> Craig
>
>   
Craig:

Thanks for the suggestion, will try. My one question before I begin is I 
kept seeing references to pulseaudio and something else like ASLA (some 
four letter acryomn) that I can't relocate on the web (I'll do a better 
search later). Does this ring a bell and, if so, are these part of 
standard Fedora 9 that I don't need to worry about as they are already 
there?

Paul