Michael Harper’s Tech & Art Blog

You wouldn’t think that doing this would be so complicated but apparently it is. I tried multiple methods of simply downloading the RPM install file from adobe.com but to no avail. The real problem is getting Firefox to recognize the new add-on. Either way, just to cover all the bases, I’m going to list the steps and explain what I did to the best of my knowledge. This works for the 32 and 64-bit architecture. SKIP the 5th step if you are only using the 32-bit architecture of Fedora.

1. Load the terminal and type su in the window, followed by your password. This allows for root access. This is only necessary because I haven’t figured out how to add my deafult Fedora user name to the “sudoers” admin group. That’s another tutorial.
2. Type rpm -ivh
   http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm to download the RPM package from Adobe.
3. Type rpm -import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux. Not sure what this does.
4. Type mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to create a plugins directory for Firefox.
5. SKIP THIS STEP IF YOU ARE USING THE 32-BIT FEDORA ARCHITECTURE. Type yum install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} pulseaudio-lib.i386 to (I think) load a form of architecture wrapper around the 32-bit audio codecs for Flash. I’m really not sure what it does.
6. Type yum install flash-plugin for the Mozilla plugin to actually install itself.
7. Type mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v so that the plugin is configured correctly.
8. Restart Firefox and let it roll.

If you have any problems, please let me know. I’ll be glad to help.