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For those of us who do not know how to replace gnash with flash, a quick note from an expert would be greatly appreciated.
For those of us who do not know how to replace gnash with flash, a quick note from an expert would be greatly appreciated.

== run as root ==

That command didn't work for me either. Running 'sudo' just gives an error. I'm no unix expert, so I think there is a way to do it with one line like he was trying to say. But I was able to get it to work this way:

su - root

then type this

rpm -i http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm

Revision as of 11:00, 23 December 2007

These instructions didn't seem to work - Gnash is still used on all Flash webpages

For those of us who do not know how to replace gnash with flash, a quick note from an expert would be greatly appreciated.

run as root

That command didn't work for me either. Running 'sudo' just gives an error. I'm no unix expert, so I think there is a way to do it with one line like he was trying to say. But I was able to get it to work this way:

su - root

then type this

rpm -i http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm