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<br><br>> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:26:11 -0400<br>> From: heller@deepsoft.com<br>> To: centos@centos.org<br>> CC: centos@centos.org<br>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine<br>> <br>> At Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:11:50 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:<br>> <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > Hi,<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos desktop.<br>> > <br>> > When i go to the adobe site, I click on the YUM for Linux version, then install it, and PC says "/tmp/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch-1.rpm is already installed" - but it's not working.<br>> <br>> With the yum repo installed, you then need to start a terminal<br>> (Applications->System Tools->Terminal, I think -- I don't use gnome, so<br>> I am not sure), then in the terminal window you type:<br>> <br>> sudo yum -y install flash_player<br>> <br>> Assuming you are loged in as a sudo enabled user (and you really should<br>> NOT be loged in as root). Sudo will ask for a password -- enter your<br>> user's password.<br>> <br>> > <br>> > So then tried downloading the .tar.gz for linux version, and PC asks me which program to open to install it, and i don't have a clue.<br>> > <br>> > Then I try downloading the .rpm version for linux, and my pc says "/tmp/flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm is already installed", but it's still not working.<br>> > <br>> > What am I doing wrong?<br>> > <br>> > Thanks anyone. <br>> > <br>> > _________________________________________________________________<br>> > Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you. <br>> > http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Storage1_042009MIME-Version: 1.0<br>> > <br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > CentOS mailing list<br>> > CentOS@centos.org<br>> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos<br>> > <br>> > <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar!<br>> Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration<br>> http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database<br>> heller@deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk<br>> <br>> <pre>Hi,<br><br>Thanks, I tried your above command logged in as a user, could not get it to install, so I just logged in as<br>root and it did not seem to work either. I tried a couple of commands and the below was the output:<br><br>[root@localhost tmp]# yum -y install flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm<br>Loading "fastestmirror" plugin<br>Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br> * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com<br> * base: centos.omnispring.com<br> * updates: ftp.lug.udel.edu<br> * addons: mirrors.unbornmedia.com<br> * extras: updates.interworx.info<br>Setting up Install Process<br>Parsing package install arguments<br>Examining flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm: flash-plugin - 10.0.22.87-release.i386<br>flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm: does not update installed package.<br>Nothing to do<br><br></pre>I thought it was a permissions problem and chmod'ed to 700, that did not work either. Im sure it's something simple I am missing.<br><br /><hr />Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. <a href='http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_042009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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