Hey, this is my second post, I’m an old school windows user who’s making the leap into Linux 
We’re making the move as a family and are going to be trying out a variety of Distros, OpenSUSE being the first. (for more info check out The Bray’s Blog).
For now I have two problems, one’s relevant here the other is a GRUB problem… So here’s my applications problem:
We’re trying to get adobe flash player to work. I’ve downloaded two types from the adobe site (.rpm and .tar.gz) i can’t figure out how they’re meant to be installed! the .rpm one brings a pop up saying “what do you want to do” I’ve tried “run” and “run in terminal” but neither of these actually do anything. So yeah, a step by step for how to install this would be good/very very useful!
Thanks,
-Cyph (aka James)
You should just need to install the Flash Player RPM that is provided, unless you are wanting the stand alone player.
> We’re trying to get adobe flash player to work. I’ve downloaded two
> types from the adobe site (.rpm and .tar.gz) i can’t figure out how
Cyph/James,
congratulations on having the courage to leap into this AND blog it for
the world to watch…i sure hope your JOURNEY is successful, even if
bumpy…and, it probably will be…there is a LOT to learn in front of
you…all of it worthwhile in breaking free from proprietary software…
ok for you app problems…actually it is NO problem…you do NOT have
to download from Adobe…not everything, but MOST things you are gonna
need can be installed with the fine package manager provided SuSE…it
is called YaST…
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pop open YaST
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give it your root password
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click on “Software Management”
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a new window will open and after a while of initialization there will
appear a “Search” blank on the left
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enter flash in that blank
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press the search button right below the blank you typed in
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on several possible packages will appear on the right…the one is
called “flash-player” that is the only one you NEED to install
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in the empty box just to the left of “flash-player” single left click
and a check mark will appear
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down in the bottom right of the window, click on “Accept”
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sometimes (often) YaST will find that other packages ARE needed and it
will show you a list, tell you they are needed and then ask if you want
them…say Yes (or Ok, or whatever it wants to install them all)
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and, i think in this case you have “Accept” a Flash license…
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after it is finished it will ask if you want to install more, click no
to close the Software Management window…
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and your Flash should “just work” (come back and complain here
before you tell the world how happy you are with SuSE (instead of mad at
how hard it is)…
thanks for giving free/open software a shot…i think you are gonna LIKE
it (but, there is a lot to learn)…
let me suggest right after you check if your flash works at youtube, do
some self study at http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts
oh, and have fun and keep smiling,
–
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
Thanks! it’s working now
I used Cryovac’s link and at first it didn’t work, but i realised that I’m running 10.3 and not 11, so i did the search again for 10.3 and found it and it worked, is it usual for applications to be “build sensitive”?
DenverD I did look in YAST, but could find it (i was just scrollling through the huge list). Thanks for the help and advice I’ll take at look at the link, after a glance it looks useful! And now to update the blog. I’ll have to mentuion how helpful yuo guys are!
-Cyph
RPM packages are ‘sensitive’ to the base system they were made against. That is why you need to search based upon whether you are running 11.0, 10.3, etc. The YaST software module does have a search field, you just have to select it from the dropdown menu.