> From: CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com > To: centos at centos.org > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:56:08 -0400 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine > > > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 10:11 -0700, Linda Stark 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. > > > > 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? > > I don't know, but what you describe sure doesn't look like my 5.x > system. > > > > > Thanks anyone. > > Being a weekend, the really knowledgeable folks may not be active today. > I would suggest you eventually google and select centos site in the > advanced search page. There's been some threads about plugins recently. > These all a related to Firefox IIRC. I've listed a few things below that > may get you going. If not, "Google is your friend". > > What I do know, is this. > > $ rpm -q adobe-release-i386 > adobe-release-i386-1.0-1 > > $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/flash-plugin > flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release > > $ rpm -q --filesbypkg flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release > flash-plugin /usr/lib/flash-plugin > flash-plugin /usr/lib/flash-plugin/LICENSE > flash-plugin /usr/lib/flash-plugin/README > flash-plugin /usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup > flash-plugin /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so > flash-plugin /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup > flash-plugin /usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.22.87 > flash-plugin /usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.22.87/readme.txt > > $ locate flash-plugin > /usr/lib/flash-plugin > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/LICENSE > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/README > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup > /usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.22.87 > /usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.22.87/readme.txt > > In my history file made with > > rpm -qa --last >Desktop/RpmInstalledByDate > > is > > flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release Wed 25 Feb 2009 05:19:20 AM EST > > Since it has no "el5" of "rf", I presume it came from Adobe, so you are > apparently in the right place. > > Nothing like you were describing should ever install in /tmp. /tmp is a > temporary storage area that is subject to arbitrary "cleaning". Maybe > that's the problem? Maybe from a previous attempt a temporary file was > left in /tmp and the new attempt can't overwrite it? I don't know. > > I guess the first thing you might want to do is find out where you got > the version that the system says is installed. Then you might want to > remove it - I don't know this - since ISTM that it may be a non-standard > package. > > You *may* want to setup the repository for Adobe if you want updates > automatically (or manually) via yum. IIRC, the instructions are on the > web site. > > If you do set up the repository and import the gpg key, etc., then a > "yum list available", "yum install <pkgname>", etc. will work for it > just like anything else. > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you. Check it > > out. > > No thanks. > > > <snip sig stuff> > > If you can't get the adobe stuff setup, post back and I'll list my repo > file. > > HTH > -- > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi, Thanks I'll do some research on google. For now, I am assuming that the file I need to install is "flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm" - is this correct? I downloaded it from adobe, assuming it got saved in tmp. And you are saying I should move the file out of tmp before install? Linda [root at localhost tmp]# ls -la total 8032 drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 4096 Apr 4 13:45 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Apr 4 12:40 .. -rwx------ 1 root root 4368 Apr 4 13:00 adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch-1.rpm -r-------- 1 user user 4368 Apr 4 12:59 adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm drwx------ 2 user user 4096 Mar 30 07:30 .exchange-user -rwx------ 1 user user 4065576 Apr 4 13:08 flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 12:40 .font-unix drwx------ 3 user user 4096 Apr 4 12:42 gconfd-user -rw------- 1 user user 66 Apr 1 04:56 .gdmINUQRU srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Apr 4 12:40 .gdm_socket -rw------- 1 user user 66 Apr 4 12:42 .gdmV125RU drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 12:42 .ICE-unix -r-------- 1 user user 3994294 Apr 4 13:06 install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz drwx------ 2 user user 4096 Apr 4 12:42 kde-user drwx------ 3 user user 4096 Apr 4 12:42 ksocket-user drwx------ 2 user user 4096 Apr 4 13:50 orbit-user drwx------ 2 user user 4096 Apr 4 12:42 ssh-VPclej3237 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 Apr 4 12:40 .X0-lock drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 12:40 .X11-unix _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Mobile1_042009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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