Hey, I am using CentOS-3 as a desktop distribution. With the exception of fewer red hats and some different logos, it looks exactly like RedHat 9 to me. The problem is some web sites do not work right, as there is no Shockwave Flash player and Java support seems to be a problem. For some web sites, I have to used Windows. I prefer not to download and install something that YUM could not help keep up to date. If I volunteered to be the "package maintainer", could browser enhancements be included in the "extras"? I am volunteering to be the package maintainer in part because I expect I would not actually have to do any package maintenance. Micromedia has a download for Mozilla under Linux, http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ and they say they support it for RedHat. I am hoping I will find a similar solution for Java. What do you say? Thanks, Rick Graves
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Rick Graves wrote:> Hey, > > I am using CentOS-3 as a desktop distribution. With > the exception of fewer red hats and some different > logos, it looks exactly like RedHat 9 to me. > > The problem is some web sites do not work right, as > there is no Shockwave Flash player and Java support > seems to be a problem. For some web sites, I have to > used Windows. > > I prefer not to download and install something that > YUM could not help keep up to date. > > If I volunteered to be the "package maintainer", could > browser enhancements be included in the "extras"? > > I am volunteering to be the package maintainer in part > because I expect I would not actually have to do any > package maintenance. > > Micromedia has a download for Mozilla under Linux, > > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ > > and they say they support it for RedHat. > > I am hoping I will find a similar solution for Java. > > What do you say?I have 2 packages in my repository: mozilla-flash mozilla-j2re that may interest you ? -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
On Monday, 09 August 2004, at 07:03:10 (-0700), Rick Graves wrote:> If I volunteered to be the "package maintainer", could browser > enhancements be included in the "extras"? > > I am volunteering to be the package maintainer in part because I > expect I would not actually have to do any package maintenance. > > Micromedia has a download for Mozilla under Linux, > > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/Read the license. Redistributing the Flash plugin is illegal. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej at kainx.org> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's pretty bad when you look at code you wrote and wonder what the hell you were thinking. It's worse when you realize you wrote that code earlier the same day."
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9 Aug 2004 at 7:03, Rick Graves wrote:> I am using CentOS-3 as a desktop distribution. With > the exception of fewer red hats and some different > logos, it looks exactly like RedHat 9 to me.Which is unsurprising, since RHEL 3 is based on RH 9.> I prefer not to download and install something that > YUM could not help keep up to date.I can understand the sentiment, but depending on what you're doing, you may ultimately end up having to download and install a package directly, or even (*gasp*) build something from source. It's not *that* scary. Really. :-)> If I volunteered to be the "package maintainer", could > browser enhancements be included in the "extras"?I've got an easier solution. Edit /etc/yum.conf and add the following: - -- begin -- [macromedia] name=Macromedia Flash Player for Red Hat Linux 3 baseurl# http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/redhat/3/ # http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/3/ # http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/apt/redhat/3/ # http://macromedia.rediris.es/apt/redhat/3/ gpgcheck=1 failovermethod=priority - -- end -- Uncomment one of the repository URIs as appropriate. You'll also need to either set gpgcheck=0 (not recommended) or install the Fedora project GPG key which is used to sign these packages. If you don't already have it, do (as root):> rpm --import http://www.fedora.us/FEDORA-GPG-KEYThen you can simply:> yum install flash-pluginand everything should work as you would expect. The usual "yum update" should track the Macromedia repository as well. - ---- Nels Lindquist <*> Information Systems Manager Morningstar Air Express Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFBGSYAbxRqvNchgLQRAolSAJ928vMjXykhMRIpWEKrWQ7/ftEamACgm0FB KUWY11IN+w/9eM12w8KgRqE=qocn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----