Flash Installation Oracle Linux UEK4 Lenovo P70 Mobile Workstation

Summary

So I sometimes like to listen to di.fm trance music channels while I work. I'm doing alot of work using the Oracle Linux UEK4 kernel as my desktop OS for my relatively new Lenovo P70 Mobile Workstation. Today I went to play some trance music in-browser from di.fm and found that I needed flash. To install flash plugin on this turns out to be easy.

Steps

Click on the "get flash" or go to the adobe flash download page. Choose the "YUM" option from the dropdown box on the webpage when presented with which choice. What this does is addes a new repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d for adobe.

When your desktop asks how to open the file choose the option that uses the GUI software installer. Wait until the button turns from "Installing" to "Remove" (red button) which signifies it's done installing.

Now open up a terminal session and run the following as shown below.

[root@ol72 ~]# yum search flash

Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo

=============================================================================================== N/S matched: flash ================================================================================================

flash-plugin.x86_64 : Adobe Flash Player 11.2

iguanaIR-reflasher.noarch : Reflasher for Iguanaworks USB IR transceiver

pcsc-cyberjack-cjflash.x86_64 : Flash tool for cyberJack

python-webflash.noarch : Portable flash messages for WSGI apps

libquvi.i686 : A cross-platform library for parsing flash media stream

libquvi.x86_64 : A cross-platform library for parsing flash media stream

Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.

[root@ol72 ~]# yum install flash-plugin

Loaded plugins: langpacks, ulninfo

Resolving Dependencies

--> Running transaction check

---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.635-release will be installed

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

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Package Arch Version Repository Size

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Installing:

flash-plugin x86_64 11.2.202.635-release adobe-linux-x86_64 6.9 M

Transaction Summary

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Install 1 Package

Total download size: 6.9 M

Installed size: 20 M

Is this ok [y/d/N]: y

Downloading packages:

warning: /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7Server/adobe-linux-x86_64/packages/flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID f6777c67: NOKEY====== ] 1.2 MB/s | 6.4 MB 00:00:00 ETA

Public key for flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64.rpm is not installed

flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64.rpm | 6.9 MB 00:00:04

Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Importing GPG key 0xF6777C67:

Userid : "Adobe Systems Incorporated (Linux RPM Signing Key) <secure@adobe.com>"

Fingerprint: 78a8 75e9 7f09 06bd 6355 73fa 3a69 bd24 f677 7c67

Package : adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch (@/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch)

From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Is this ok [y/N]: y

Running transaction check

Running transaction test

Transaction test succeeded

Running transaction

Installing : flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64 1/1

Verifying : flash-plugin-11.2.202.635-release.x86_64 1/1

Installed:

flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.635-release

Complete!

[root@ol72 ~]#

Finally, close all FireFox browser windows (if you are using firefox) and restart firefox. Now flash should be enabled.