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On 9 Aug 2004 at 7:03, Rick Graves wrote:
I am using CentOS-3 as a desktop distribution. With the exception of fewer red hats and some different logos, it looks exactly like RedHat 9 to me.
Which is unsurprising, since RHEL 3 is based on RH 9.
I prefer not to download and install something that YUM could not help keep up to date.
I can understand the sentiment, but depending on what you're doing, you may ultimately end up having to download and install a package directly, or even (*gasp*) build something from source. It's not *that* scary. Really. :-)
If I volunteered to be the "package maintainer", could browser enhancements be included in the "extras"?
I've got an easier solution. Edit /etc/yum.conf and add the following:
- -- begin -- [macromedia] name=Macromedia Flash Player for Red Hat Linux 3 baseurl= # http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/redhat/3/ # http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/3/ # http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/3/ # http://macromedia.rediris.es/apt/redhat/3/ gpgcheck=1 failovermethod=priority - -- end --
Uncomment one of the repository URIs as appropriate. You'll also need to either set gpgcheck=0 (not recommended) or install the Fedora project GPG key which is used to sign these packages. If you don't already have it, do (as root):
rpm --import http://www.fedora.us/FEDORA-GPG-KEY
Then you can simply:
yum install flash-plugin
and everything should work as you would expect.
The usual "yum update" should track the Macromedia repository as well.
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