Le 17/01/2014 18:28, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, François Patte wrote: > >> Le 17/01/2014 05:11, Patrick Bartek a écrit : >>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> >>>> On Jo, 16 ian 14, 09:58:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [snip] >>> >>> I was unaware of this. I thought it was the plugin. I have since >>> read the the Debian Flash wiki and see my error. Of course, the >>> Debian way of installing/updating Flash is a lot easier than >>> Fedora's which I switched from middle of last year after using Core >>> and Fedora for a number of years: You have to do it 100% manually. >> >> yum install flash-plugin >> >> Is it what you call "100% manually" > > No. When I first started using Fedora at Core 3, and for a number of > years after, this was the only way to install Flash on Fedora: > > 1. Go to Adobe web site > > 2. Find the step-by-step install instructions. Read them. > > 3. Find download page for Flash for Linux. This was not a simple > click away. The Linux page was not easy to find. The Flash > Download page always defaulted to Windows. > > 4. Download the gzip file. No distro-specific repos or install files. > > 5. Uncompress locally in your /home directory, and as root copy the > flashplugin to the correct directory for your distro. It varied. > > 6. Test to see if it worked, and troubleshoot when it didn't. > > > Later as I remember, Adobe, besides the generic gzip file, > started supplying rpm, deb, etc. files for specific distros, so you > could use that distro's package manager to install the file, but you > still had to download it first. And up until I quit Fedora at > version 12 (I used it for a year past its End-of-Life until Wheezy Beta > was released), a simple 'yum install flash-plugin' was not possible > as Flash was not Open Source, and Fedora never, never, never put > proprietary software in their repos. You had to go to third party repos > for that. I don't know if Adobe ever set up its own dedicated Flash > repository for Linux.
You are talking of world before WW1... I have just update my laptop running f14 (WW2) and: yum update Modules complémentaires chargés : langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding fr_FR to language list Configuration du processus de mise à jour Résolution des dépendances --> Lancement de la transaction de test ---> Paquet VirtualBox-4.1.i686 0:4.1.30_91550_fedora14-1 marqué pour être mis à jour ---> Paquet flash-plugin.i386 0:11.2.202.335-release marqué pour être mis à jour ---> Paquet gthumb.i686 0:2.12.3-1.fc14 marqué pour être mis à jour --> Résolution des dépendances terminée Dépendances résolues ================================================================================================================== Paquet Architecture Version Dépôt Taille ================================================================================================================== Mise à jour: VirtualBox-4.1 i686 4.1.30_91550_fedora14-1 virtualbox 64 M flash-plugin i386 11.2.202.335-release adobe-linux-i386 6.6 M gthumb i686 2.12.3-1.fc14 updates 4.0 M Résumé de la transaction ================================================================================================================== Upgrade 3 Package(s) Taille totale : 74 M Taille totale des téléchargement : 70 M Est-ce correct [o/N] : o Téléchargement des paquets : Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata Processing delta metadata Package(s) data still to download: 70 M (1/2): VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.30_91550_fedora14-1.i686.rpm | 64 MB 03:05 (2/2): flash-plugin-11.2.202.335-release.i386.rpm | 6.6 MB 00:18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 351 kB/s | 70 MB 03:24 Lancement de rpm_check_debug Lancement de la transaction de test Transaction de test réussie Lancement de la transaction Mise à jour : flash-plugin-11.2.202.335-release.i386 1/6 Mise à jour : VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.30_91550_fedora14-1.i686 2/6 (Sorry! I didn't switch to LANG=C) -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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