[CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

Sat Apr 4 17:26:11 UTC 2009
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:11:50 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
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>         I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos desktop.
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> 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.

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> What am I doing wrong?
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> Thanks anyone. 
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