Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:26:11 -0400 From: heller@deepsoft.com To: centos@centos.org CC: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine
At Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:11:50 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos desktop.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.
With the yum repo installed, you then need to start a terminal (Applications->System Tools->Terminal, I think -- I don't use gnome, so I am not sure), then in the terminal window you type:
sudo yum -y install flash_player
Assuming you are loged in as a sudo enabled user (and you really should NOT be loged in as root). Sudo will ask for a password -- enter your user's password.
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.
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.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks anyone.
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Hi,
Thanks, I tried your above command logged in as a user, could not get it to install, so I just logged in as root and it did not seem to work either. I tried a couple of commands and the below was the output:
[root@localhost tmp]# yum -y install flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com * base: centos.omnispring.com * updates: ftp.lug.udel.edu * addons: mirrors.unbornmedia.com * extras: updates.interworx.info Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Examining flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm: flash-plugin - 10.0.22.87-release.i386 flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm: does not update installed package. Nothing to do
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.
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