Hey,
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.
The problem is some web sites do not work right, as there is no Shockwave Flash player and Java support seems to be a problem. For some web sites, I have to used Windows.
I prefer not to download and install something that YUM could not help keep up to date.
If I volunteered to be the "package maintainer", could browser enhancements be included in the "extras"?
I am volunteering to be the package maintainer in part because I expect I would not actually have to do any package maintenance.
Micromedia has a download for Mozilla under Linux,
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
and they say they support it for RedHat.
I am hoping I will find a similar solution for Java.
What do you say?
Thanks,
Rick Graves
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Rick Graves wrote:
I have 2 packages in my repository:
mozilla-flash mozilla-j2re
that may interest you ?
-- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Hey Dag,
I am absolutely interested.
Can we put these in the CentOS repository?
Who will be responsible for (really) maintaining them?
Are there any licensing/persmission issues?
Thanks,
Rick
--- Dag Wieers dag@wieers.com wrote:
[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
If I recall correctly, this has been asked and shot down before. cAos/CentOS is about Open Source which flash is not. There was talk that java might become open source, but that has not happened.
For CentOS-2, Sun distribute a .rpm which works fine. Does it not work for CentOS-3 & cAos?
I have a small rpm with 1 symlink which enables the java plugin for mozilla (requires j2sdk & mozilla).
I also have the flash plugin packaged but do not distribute it. If someone wanted, they could create a script/srpm which could obtain the download from macromedia and package it up.
John.
Rick Graves wrote:
On Monday, 09 August 2004, at 07:03:10 (-0700), Rick Graves wrote:
Read the license. Redistributing the Flash plugin is illegal.
Michael
http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/redhat/3/RPMS.macromedia/
mplug.org has RPMS built for fedora and several other Redhat distros. The above is for RHEL 3. The above is an apt/yum repository.
I dont' know if they are doing it with Macromedia's permission.
Michael Jennings wrote:
On Monday, 09 August 2004, at 10:02:46 (-0500), donavan nelson wrote:
I'm sure they do. In fact, I'm sure lots of people do. (Like Dag.) :)
I dont' know if they are doing it with Macromedia's permission.
Doubtful. If someone does, I'd like to hear about it. They wouldn't even give me the time of day.
Michael
On Monday, 09 August 2004, at 11:15:09 (-0400), seth vidal wrote:
So, Warren, how'd you do it? :)
Michael
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Michael Jennings wrote:
tee hee -- this is Warren Togami's home lug, and it turns out that he acrually _did_ make himself a sufficiently persistent pest, together with a commitment to send along download information, that he stated they _did_ grant him permission.
- Russ
Michael,
Read the license. Redistributing the Flash plugin is illegal.
Thanks for pointing that out.
As "maintainer", I would contact the Micromedia company and get their permission before we would add the package to the CentOS respository.
If they say "No", the deal is off, but I think contacting them is worth a try. That is, if we have no other objections from within.
Rick
--- Michael Jennings mej@caosity.org wrote:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
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On 9 Aug 2004 at 7:03, Rick Graves wrote:
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.