[K12OSN] for those would like to try flash player9 -plugin

Nils Breunese nils at breun.nl
Fri Jan 19 16:40:51 UTC 2007


Petre Scheie wrote:

> Eric Harrison wrote:
>> Dan Young wrote:
>>> Dan Young wrote:
>>>> Right now, the only legal way to distribute Flash for Linux is  
>>>> either
>>>> getting it from Adobe's website or Warren Togami's RPM:
>>>> http://macromedia.mplug.org/
>>>>
>>>> He got a special dispensation from Adobe (then Macromedia) to  
>>>> package
>>>> Flash. They will not allow him to distribute a packaged version  
>>>> 9 until
>>>> it is out of beta.
>>>
>>> Looks like v9 is now available:
>>> http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayerlinux
>>>
>> or "yum install flash-plugin" ;-)
>
> I've tried this on two servers now, and in both cases it broke  
> Flash sound, so I advise people to be cautious in upgrading.  Is  
> there an easy way to roll back to flash-plugin-7.0.68-1 using yum?

yum doesn't really do roll-backs. But you have or can find the rpm  
you can install it like this:

     rpm -Uvh --oldpackage flash-plugin-7*.rpm

Nils Breunese.




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