Hello people. I"m a noob to LInux, having downloaded openSUSE 11.2 KDE the other day, so so sorry if I’m asking heaps of questions around here.
Well I have been trying to view some flash videos on the net and apparantly need to update my flash player. So I go to the Adobe page and download the YUM for Linux. It says it’s installed, but I still can’t view flash videos. Could anyone help with this please?
I’m gonna tell you, that flash from the site didn’t worked for me. I suggest you install it from the repositories, like i did, and it worked
As a general rule, always try YaST first. If you don’t get a response from YaST, try the Build Service or the packman repositories for anything for openSUSE.
Thanks for the help ideas. Could you walk me through the processes please? I literally got Linux two days ago. I’m just trying to adjust to a different OS after being with windows for 11 years. Thanks. 
What version of openSUSE
What version of flash do you currently have?
Sorry I see 11.2
But do you have a version of flash installed or Not?
Post result of
rpm -qi flash-player
diddy29 wrote:
> I’m just trying to adjust to a different OS after being with windows for 11 years.
=welcome=-
it will take some time, and a lot of learning to ‘adjust’…
going all over the internet to find and download packages (which you
do not know if you can trust, or not) is SO old fashioned and SO last
century!
here we most often find more good free stuff than you can every use
just by sticking to the primary four openSUSE repositories of software
(oss, non-oss, update and packman) which are easily accessed by
finding YaST in the menu and clicking on it, then give the root
password and go to Software Management (and search, for example for
‘flash’)
but, now that you have already done it the incorrect (last century
Window’s way) i think you first need to undo that…but, i’m not
certain how, i guess with the rpm command…
how to set up multimedia is covered pretty well (i think) in the
stickies of one or both of these:
http://forums.opensuse.org/information-new-users/new-user-how-faq-read-only/
http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/multimedia/
other resources you might need to get going are listed in here:
http://tinyurl.com/ybklh48
imo the best way to do stuff here is to not assume it works just like
what you are used to, and seek instructions from the huge
documentation resources before acting…and, then if you get stuck,
ask (after using the forum’s advanced search function on, for example
‘flash’)…
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try yast>software management
type flash and see if the package you want shows up
if yes, mark it to install and click accept
if not, browse opensuse.org wiki to search how to add the repo that have the package (packman, if i´m not wrong) add it and re-do the steps
in the command box? nothing comes up.
Thankyou, and I’m prepared for that.
Untrusted, from the Adobe site? I don’t think so. I prefer to say it’s a different way of doing it. Whether it’s better or not, I’ll let time be the judge.
Well naturally…
could you please explain these repositories of software? I don’t really know what you’re talking about.
I went into YaST > Software Management and it says I have flash installed, however flash videos won’t work. 
Undoing it…how? As I said, I am new to the Linux way, so could you please step me through it. Thanks.
open a terminal and paste this
rpm -qi flash-player
I think you may have done it somewhere else before.