installing the adobe flash player

[bearfood]

This seems to be the correct one for my system, but when i download the .rpm file and tell it that yes I do want to install it to my system, it tells me that I do not have the necessarily privileges... do i need to log in as root? I have been able to log in as root in the console but have not been able to get into the GUI as root. i know how to use su in the terminal, perhaps I can download the .rpm file and then try running it as a super user? if so how you you tell it to "run" a file?


http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

(is the plugin I am trying install)

[uncholowapo]

just add the adobe repo and use yum to install it:

sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
sudo yum install flash-plugin libflashsupport

[bearfood]

awesome! that seems to be working splendidly but I have no idea what it is that I did, just typed what you said. Now I want to install skype, is there some YUM install for that? Is there some where I can go to find these commands and what they mean? or is it just something that will come with experience?

[uncholowapo]

Well all the first line did was install an rpm that added the repo to your /etc/yum.repos.d folder. The second line imports a sort of verification key if you will to check that the rpm is legit and the last installs the plugin and a library to allow sound for the plugin.

For Skype there is a tut in the guides and howto's section of the forum. If you can't find it then just search Skype in the forums. There is bound to be tons of threads on Skype.

[Obscure]

In your terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo

In that file, copy these following lines:

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
gpgcheck=0

Save, and close it.

Then in your terminal:

sudo yum install skype

Although you shouldn't have to, after you can also try

sudo yum update skype

...And that's it!

[bearfood]

thanks guys works well. I am starting to get the hang of this...

Of further not... I have been unable to set my microphone up, it is apparently not working just by plugging it in. Is there something special to this?

[Obscure]

Originally Posted by bearfood

thanks guys works well. I am starting to get the hang of this...

Of further not... I have been unable to set my microphone up, it is apparently not working just by plugging it in. Is there something special to this?

Try loading up PulseAudio Volume Control, and see if it's detected in there first, and then play around with the levels in the input and output.

[bearfood]

It is detected in there, but it is very unstable and flickers quite a bit, and eventually the pulse audio controller freezes an the only way I am able to shut it down is by rebooting.

[robatino]

Obscure: your procedure for setting up the Skype repo won't work since Skype no longer hosts their GPG key on their own server. (In fact, they don't document their own yum repo at all anymore, though it still exists.) Try this instead:

http://fedorasolved.org/multimedia-s...talling-skype/

Basically, you need to download the GPG key from somewhere else, put in on your local filesystem (typically under /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/), then change the "gpgkey=" line to point to that instead.

By the way, the Wayback machine still contains copies of the old Skype pages documenting the yum repo and the GPG key, for example

http://web.archive.org/web/200711111...public-key.asc
http://web.archive.org/web/200712061...ositories.html