<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Macromedia Flash</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Security considerations and other risks" HREF="x126.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="gstreamer and ffmpeg support" HREF="x157.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x126.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x157.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="AEN133" ></A >4. Macromedia Flash</H1 ><P >Fedora won't distribute from their site because Macromedia's license doesn't permit it, but there are no other legal barriers to using the RPMs at <A HREF="http://macromedia.mplug.org/" TARGET="_top" >http://macromedia.mplug.org/</A >.</P ><P >Follow those directions, dropping the Macromedia repository configuration in your <TT CLASS="filename" >/etc/yum.repos.d/</TT > directory. It should look much like this:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > [macromedia] name=Macromedia for i386 Linux baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Then do the installation:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > yum install flash-plugin </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Installing this RPM should put the plugin in your Firefox plugin directories (and Mozilla's as well).</P ><P >You can test your flash support at the <A HREF="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/" TARGET="_top" >official test page</A >. Note that you may have to kill and restart your browser after installing the plugin; I tried the Flash test immediately and it crashed Firefox.</P ><P >There's a gotcha: The Macromedia plugin works only for 32-bit Intel boxes. It completely fails on an x86_64 running in 64-bit mode (in general, 32-bit plugins won't work in a 64-bit browser). Currently there are three projects addressung this problem:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="_top" >gplflash1</A > is the orignal GPL Flash plugin. Only handles SWF up to level 4.</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="_top" >gplflash2</A > half-works, with painful amounts of flicker, and frequently crashes Firefox. This rewrite of gplflash has been abandoned in favor of gnash.</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/" TARGET="_top" >gnash</A > promises full support for SWF up to level 7, but is still in early development and surrounded by warnings.</P ></LI ></UL ><P >I think the right stopgap on 64-bit systems might be to build and install gplflash1, but as of 21 Mar 2006 I can't because it needs an X header file I cannot yet find the right RPM for. This may change as the dust settles around FC5.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x126.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x157.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Security considerations and other risks</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >gstreamer and ffmpeg support</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >