fedora 9 / 10 and flashplayer 9 /10

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jan 26 14:08:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 08:34 +0000, M A Young wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Craig White wrote:
> 
> >
> > rpm -ivh \
> > http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
> >
> > and then...
> >
> > yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport
> 
> No, you do not want to install libflashsupport for Flash 10, and indeed it 
> can cause problems if you do. Flash 9 audio support had problems with 
> recent linux releases such as Fedora 9, which is why libflashsupport was 
> shipped with Fedora 9, since Flash 9 was the current version at that 
> point. These issues are resolved in Flash 10 so libflashsupport is no 
> longer necessary, and as the libflashsupport package in Fedora 9 is based 
> on Flash 9 code it can cause problems when used with Flash 10.
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thanks for the clarification

Craig




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