I just installed openSuse yesterday for the first time and have a dumb firefox question. I tried to install adobe flash, and it’s not working correctly. I downloaded the YUM version, and told it to run the program. It did, but no flash seemed to install. When I try again with either yum or rpm it tells me it’s already installed, but in firefox there is no sign of it. What am I doing wrong??
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Remove the installed version of flash and as root do: zypper in
flash-player from a shell, close Firefox before
VampirD
Microsoft Windows is like air conditioning
Stops working when you open a window.
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A better layout of VampirD’s post:
sudo zypper in flash-player
I think flash is preselected to be installed the first time you start the “install/remove software” yast modul.
Finish by clicking accept
greetings Kump
True, thanks to the metapackage ‘pullin-flash-player’. Flash not being installed yet suggests that you haven’t run a systemwide update yet (which would fetch the Flash-Player too) - that is pretty much the first thing one should do right after the initial installation.
I see you’re new to this forum. WELCOME!
Yum is an installer for RedHat (fedora). OpenSuSE uses zypper which serves the same function but uses the openSuSE repos where yum will use the fedora repos.