Flash

===Flash Player===
There's more than one way to install Adobe FlashPlayer on your Fedora 7 system, and as many opinions as to which was is the right way. Here's what works for me. I download the .tar.gz version from [http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash Adobe's download site]. The file saves to my desktop, so I move it to the /opt folder. To do that I open a terminal as root and type
mv /home/glenn/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz /opt/
Change to the /opt folder
cd /opt
and unpack the archive
tar xfvz install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
This command extracts all the files from the archive and puts them into a newly created folder, /opt/install_flash_player_9_linux. Now I need to copy the file libflashplayer.so to the Firefox and Mozila plugins folders. In a terminal type
cp /opt/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.4/plugins
and
cp /opt/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Close and restart Firefox. In the url bar type '''about:plugins'''. You should see '''Shockwave Flash''' listed.

[[Image:flash-plug-in.png]]

=====The .rpm way=====
Download the .rpm repo file from the same web site. Install by right clicking on the desktop file and choose '''open with archive manager'''. Now that the adobe repo is added to your system you can open a terminal and install flash by typing yum install flash-plugin.

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