[one-liner]: Installing Adobe Flash Player 11.1 on Fedora 14 64bit

Background

While processing some updates on my Fedora 14 (x86_64) laptop the other day, Adobe Flash Player inexplicably stopped working. Looks like there’s a 64bit version of flash now available. Not sure when this happened, but I was using a 32bit version of flash, wrapped so that it would work with 64bit. For whatever reason the upgraded version of flash no longer worked, so I took the opportunity to back out the 32bit version, and switch to the 64bit one.

Solution

Here’s what I did:

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## Adobe Repository 64-bit x86_64 ##
% rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
% rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
 
## remove and install
% yum remove flash-plugin
% yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

This tutorial on if-not-true-then-false.com proved helpful in figuring out why my 32bit version stopped working and how to upgraded to the x86_64 version.

References

links

• Adobe Flash Player 11.1 on Fedora 16/15, CentOS/RHEL 6.2/5.7 – if !1 0 blog

local copies

• Adobe Flash Player 11.1 on Fedora 16/15, CentOS/RHEL 6.2/5.7 – if !1 0 blog

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