Nels,
I've got an easier solution.
Excellent! Your solution is absolutely easier, and IT WORKS! After following your instructions, "This Land" by the JibJab brothers played without a hitch.
With your permission, I will write up an FAQ and give you the credit.
If anyone has not seen "This Land" yet, you owe it to yourself to take a look:
Next I need java. When I go to the official US time site, http://www.time.gov/, and go to a time zone, I want to see the seconds go by (without having to click to refresh). Can you help with that as well?
Perhaps one FAQ could cover both the Flash plugin and Java.
Rick
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Message: 3 From: "Nels Lindquist" nlindq@maei.ca Organization: Morningstar Air Express Inc. To: centos@caosity.org Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:46:08 -0600 Subject: Re: [Centos] Shockwave Flash player for CentOS
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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.
Nels Lindquist <*> Information Systems Manager Morningstar Air Express Inc.