[CentOS] Music while you work - or not
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Aug 23 14:59:46 UTC 2009
On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:34:35 Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> > Wanting to listen to magnatune.com while I worked, I discovered that
> > flash is not working. It appears that I don't have libflashplayer, but
> > yum tells me that no such package is available. I must need a different
> > repo, I think, but what? Currently I have
> >
> > ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
> > adobe-linux-i386.repo epel-testing.repo
> > CentOS-Base.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo
> > CentOS-Media.repo mirrors-rpmforge
> > epel.repo rpmforge.repo
>
> rpmforge has the flash plugin, but there's also a repository available
> from adobe itself, which offers that.
>
> > I suspect that c5-media repo is discontinued.
>
> The centos-media repo is not what you think it is - look inside the
> .repo file :)
>
> > I've seen no error messages
> > apart from 'No package libflashplayer available.' In theory I have
> > installed the adobe flash-player, but apparently not.
>
> What makes you think that the package is called libflashplayer?
Googling for CentOS+flash
> Have
> you searched with yum?
>
Yes, I did, after which I attempted to install flash-plugin mozilla-swfdec
swfdec swftools - the packages listed that appeared to be relevant. It failed
with various dependencies, which I could not resolve, which is why I thought I
must be missing a repo. However, I have just managed to install flash-plugin
by itself. It seems I was distracted by all the dependencies which must have
been for swfdec.
Anne
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