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 -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090823/73570726/attachment-0005.sig>