[TriLUG] flash plugin on fedora

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:57, Chris Knowles wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:26, Jason Tower wrote:
> > nope, it just tosses me back in to dependency heck:
> > 
> > [root at spike stuff]# rpm -Uvh flash-plugin-6.0.79-1.i386.rpm
> > warning: flash-plugin-6.0.79-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 
> > 8df56d05
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is needed by flash-plugin-6.0.79-1
> > [root at spike stuff]# rpm -q libstdc++
> > libstdc++-3.3.2-1
> > 

> Well, after looking at this and seeing the same thing, I too thought that 
> flash on Fedora wasn't going to happen.
> 
> After a couple of google searches, I kept hearing about compat-libstdc++ packages.
> 
> Sure enough, these are part of Fedora, just not installed by default.  
> 
> Install them and flash works.

And indeed, these would be installed automatically by apt-get or yum if
you follow the instructions at http://macromedia.mplug.org/ , which I
posted earlier.  Just another case where your favorite
dependency-resolving update tool comes to the rescue!  :-)

--Jeremy

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