[K12OSN] Flash plugin with Firefox 64 bit

Brian Chivers brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk
Thu Sep 4 14:37:20 UTC 2008


Nils Breunese wrote:
> Brian Chivers wrote:
> 
>> Decided from what everyone has said was to remove the 64bit Firefox 
>> but I'll jave to wait as
>>
>> yum remove firefox.x86_64
>>
>> times out with the following error
>>
>> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-64bit/repodata/repomd.xml: 
>> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name 
>> resolution')>
>> Trying other mirror.
>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for 
>> repository: k12ltsp. Please verify its path and try again
>>
>> :-/
> 
> I also noticed the repositories being unavailable. You can disable 
> repositories using yum's --disablerepo flag so that it just skips those 
> for that yum run, but it's probably easier to go through rpm directly:
> 
>     # rpm -e firefox.x86_64
> 
> Nils Breunese.
> 
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I did a yum -C remove firefox.x86_64 and it's all gone away now & firefox 32 bit with plugins 
working :-)

Brian

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