On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:55:27 lostson wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 23 August 2009 15:31, lostson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:26 +0100, Anne Wilson 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 > > > > > > > > I suspect that c5-media repo is discontinued. I've seen no error > > > > messages apart from 'No package libflashplayer available.' In > > > > theory I have installed the adobe flash-player, but apparently not. > > > > I'm stuck. Any help, please? > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > Personally I go here > > > > > > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ > > > > > > get the YUM for linux package install it then > > > > I have - > > > > [adobe-linux-i386] > > name=Adobe Systems Incorporated > > baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ > > enabled=1 > > gpgcheck=1 > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux > > > > > yum install flash-player > > > > > > then all my flash needs are met. > > > > No package flash-player available. > > Nothing to do > > <sigh> > > > > Anne > > Sorry its yum install flash-plugin NP :-) It's just unfortunate that the googling led me to a link which gave the wrong information. Once you start down a bad road things just go from bad to worse. Anyway, it's working now. Thanks for trying to help. 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/20090823/4203f263/attachment-0005.sig>