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'''*''' Open "[[Terminal]] Activity" [[Image:Activity-terminal.svg|35px]]. This is a pre-installed program found in the Activities taskbar at the bottom of your [http://laptop.org/laptop/start/homeview.shtml Home View]. You may need to scroll through the Activities taskbar (at the bottom of your screen) to find the [[Image:Activity-terminal.svg|35px]] icon. |
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Another way to bring up the Linux command prompt is by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Neighborhood keys at the same time. The Neighborhood key is represented by a circle with 8 small dots [[Image:Mesh key f1 small.png]]. |
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Revision as of 14:32, 26 December 2007
To install Adobe Flash
* Make sure you are connected to the Internet
* Open "Terminal Activity" . This is a pre-installed program found in the Activities taskbar at the bottom of your Home View. You may need to scroll through the Activities taskbar (at the bottom of your screen) to find the icon.
Another way to bring up the Linux command prompt is by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Neighborhood keys at the same time. The Neighborhood key is represented by a circle with 8 small dots .
* install flashplayer by typing:
su rpm -i http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm
or, for the most recent version:
su rpm -i http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm
If you see an error message such as:
error: skipping http://... - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
chances are you are either not connected to the Internet or you made a typo.
If you see an error message such as:
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/...
you probably forgot to prepend sudo to the command line.
Alternate Install Instructions (if those above don't work)
At the command prompt, login as root
su - root
Then type this to install the latest version of Adobe Flash
rpm -i http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm
To uninstall:
1. open the Terminal activity;
2. remove flashplayer by typing:
sudo yum remove flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release
or
sudo yum remove flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release
depending on the version you installed.
Advanced options
Older versions of flash are available here:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp9_archive.zip
Information about how to load other restricted formats is found here.