Published August 30th, 2007 by Jim O'Halloran
Installing Flash Player 9 on Fedora
Installing Adobe Flash Player 9 on Fedora 7 is a piece of cake, only two commands! First, get a root shell (either log in as root, or su to become root), and type:
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
This will download and install the yum configurations and gpg keys necessary to install Flash via the yum updater. Next enter…
yum install flash-plugin
The system will then download and install the Flash player on your machine and register it as a Firefox plugin. You can make sure it worked correctly by opening a new Firefox windows and going to Adobe’s About Flash page. If it all woked, you should see a “Version Information” box which says something like “You have version 9,0,48,0 installed”.
Flash Player is really easy to install on Fedora, and having it makes the “new” web (e.g. YouTube, etc) a lot more usable, well worth the little time and effort required to get it installed.