It seems that many people can't get Macromedia's Flash plugins to work with the most popular
web browsers, such as Galeon, Mozilla, Netscape, and Konqueror. I have created an RPM that should
aid those people in this dilema, as well as provide an quick, easy, and convenient way for others
to install the Flash plugin in Linux. Please note that this is largely untested on platforms other
than x86, as well as with Konqueror, although it did work for me. Note that you will need to have
kdebase-nsplugins installed. If you are unsure, run
urpmi kdebase-nsplugins as root in a
console, or use RpmDrake to install it.
First, you must download the RPM. Here is the link:
mozilla-flash-5.0r51-1tex.i586.rpm (570K)
Save it in your home directory.
Open your home directory in Konqueror, and then press
CTRL+T to open a console.
Now type in
su and hit
Enter to switch to the root user. Enter the password when it
prompts for it, and then press
Enter.
Now type in
rpm -Uvh mozilla-flash-5.0r51-1tex.i586.rpm and then press
Enter.
Once the process is done, you will be returned to a command prompt, so you can now close the console window.
Flash is now installed! To test it out, I recommend that you go here:
Windows RG - Microsoft's secret weapon against Linux.
If there are any problems, or if you can confirm that it works properly with Konqueror and other
architectures, please contact me.