[CentOS] Music while you work - or not

[Ralph Angenendt]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that flash is
> not working.  It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but yum tells me
> that no such package is available.  I must need a different repo, I think,
> but what?  Currently I have
>
> ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
> adobe-linux-i386.repo          epel-testing.repo
> CentOS-Base.repo               kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo
> CentOS-Media.repo              mirrors-rpmforge
> epel.repo                      rpmforge.repo

rpmforge has the flash plugin, but there's also a repository available
from adobe itself, which offers that.

> I suspect that c5-media repo is discontinued.

The centos-media repo is not what you think it is - look inside the
.repo file :)

> I've seen no error messages
> apart from 'No package libflashplayer available.'   In theory I have
> installed the adobe flash-player, but apparently not.

What makes you think that the package is called libflashplayer? Have
you searched with yum?

Ralph