Updates day

May 29th, 2008

I use OSX, Linux and boot Vista and XP from time to time. Today seems to have been a curious confluence of large updates. First i updated OSX to 10.5.3 (I hope that they have fixed the 802.11n bug that kills my d-link AP, will test later.) Then it was time to boot Vista to print on the printer in the new office that only can use color in Windows, which after the first updates reboot informed me that it was time to install Vista Service Pack 1. It took a while. Of course, Fedora 9 had some 50 megs of updates today also, so the updates total for today was pretty serious.

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Flash player on Fedora 9 x86_64

May 13th, 2008

I installed Fedora 9 on my x86_64 box today, and one of the early tasks was to get Adobe’s flash player working. Unfortunately it didn’t work out of the box, but once I understood what went wrong the fix was easy:

yum -y install nspluginwrapper.i386 libflashsupport.i386

(this assumes that you have installed the flash with the yum method described at Adobe’s site)

I hope that our friends at Adobe sorts this out to be a bit more user friendly in the future, perhaps by licensing their player in a Fedora compatible way so that it can be a part of the distribution.

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