fedora 9 / 10 and flashplayer 9 /10

[Paul Newell]

Craig White wrote:
> 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.
>>     
> ----
> thanks for the clarification
>
> Craig
>
>   
I also send thanks for the additional information. Given all this, I am 
beginning to think I might just kick the machine up to fedora 10 and 
skip what appear to be problems in flash9 and fedora9's workarounds for 
it. I'd probably be doing the upgrade in the next couple months anyway ...

Paul