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

[Petre Scheie]

Nils Breunese wrote:
> 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.
> 
I'm trying to find the old package now.  Unfortunately, both it and the new package came 
from Adobe's website, and I'm only finding the new version there now.