Friday, February 27, 2004

Flash Player 6 for Mandrake

The Flash player for Linux has been greatly improved. It does an install much like the Windows version and detects what browsers are installed... very nice. I have installed the Mandrake 9.2 version on 4 systems ... works perfectly.

Go get it!!
http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/site_ucsc.html

Howto do URPMI for flash on Mandrake Linux:
Mandrake uses urpmi for automatic package management. You can alternatively use the rpmdrake GUI interface. You must add this repository to your urpmi sources before you can use it.

Command Line Example (choose your version)
urpmi.addmedia Macromedia http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/urpmi/mandrake/9.0/RPMS/ with synthesis.hdlist.cz
urpmi.addmedia Macromedia http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/urpmi/mandrake/8.2/RPMS/ with synthesis.hdlist.cz

To optimize your downloads, use the mirror closest to your geographical location with this command:

rpmdrake GUI Example (substitute URL with the nearest mirror and version)

The rutgers mirror howto is located at http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/rep_ru.html.

out... nomasteryoda