So I sometimes like to listen to di.fm trance music channels while I work. I'm doing alot of work using the Oracle Linux UEK4 kernel as my desktop OS for my relatively new Lenovo P70 Mobile Workstation. Today I went to play some trance music in-browser from di.fm and found that I needed flash. To install flash plugin on this turns out to be easy.
Click on the "get flash" or go to the adobe flash download page. Choose the "YUM" option from the dropdown box on the webpage when presented with which choice. What this does is addes a new repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d for adobe.
When your desktop asks how to open the file choose the option that uses the GUI software installer. Wait until the button turns from "Installing" to "Remove" (red button) which signifies it's done installing.
Now open up a terminal session and run the following as shown below.
[root@ol72 ~]# yum search flash
Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo
=============================================================================================== N/S matched: flash ================================================================================================
flash-plugin.x86_64 : Adobe Flash Player 11.2
iguanaIR-reflasher.noarch : Reflasher for Iguanaworks USB IR transceiver
pcsc-cyberjack-cjflash.x86_64 : Flash tool for cyberJack
python-webflash.noarch : Portable flash messages for WSGI apps
libquvi.i686 : A cross-platform library for parsing flash media stream
libquvi.x86_64 : A cross-platform library for parsing flash media stream
Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.
[root@ol72 ~]# yum install flash-plugin
Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.635-release will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
flash-plugin x86_64 11.2.202.635-release adobe-linux-x86_64 6.9 M
Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package
Total download size: 6.9 M
Installed size: 20 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
warning: /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7Server/adobe-linux-x86_64/packages/flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID f6777c67: NOKEY====== ] 1.2 MB/s | 6.4 MB 00:00:00 ETA
Public key for flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64.rpm is not installed
flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64.rpm | 6.9 MB 00:00:04
Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
Importing GPG key 0xF6777C67:
Userid : "Adobe Systems Incorporated (Linux RPM Signing Key) <secure@adobe.com>"
Fingerprint: 78a8 75e9 7f09 06bd 6355 73fa 3a69 bd24 f677 7c67
Package : adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch (@/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch)
From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Installing : flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64 1/1
Installed:
flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.635-release
Complete!
[root@ol72 ~]#
Finally, close all FireFox browser windows (if you are using firefox) and restart firefox. Now flash should be enabled.