Fedora Live Question

General Questions
#1

Until monday I will be using fedora live as the OS on my laptop. I want to watch Youtube videos on the laptop, but it is telling me I need to download Flash. Flash is already on the laptop, I was watching youtube vids on XP, but I need to re-install it for fedora live I guess. But when I go to install it it says it needs to make a new partition. It gives 2 options, remove the Linix partition and make it there, or use free space do to it. WIll either of these cause me to lose data on the hard drive?

Thanks.

#2

Remove the linux partition will erase you existing linux partition. If you installed Fedora’s live CD on your hard drive already there is no need to re-install. For yourtube+flash

add the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/
adobe-linux-i386.repo

[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

then yum install flash-plugin

If you are looking to upgrade the Fedora instalation install preupgrade and run it after reading the release notes on the newest version. ( a bit tricky for a 10->11 upgrade )

Meflin

#3

Most of that was Latin to me. But I went to the folder /etc/yum.repos.d/
adobe-linux-i386.repo and [adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux was already there.

And I didn’t install Fendora Live, I am running the CD. But I guess it may install itself, and thats what you were talking about to.

#4

Running from the live cd you probably need to install the flash thingy every boot. Fedora is
also a fast moving target … the day the live-CD comes out its got a lot of updates.

There is an icon to install to the hard drive … you need free space on the drive to do this.
The safest way is to install to a 2nd hard drive. I always get nervous about messing with
a drive that has working stuff on it.

It seems the live cd image has the adobe fedora in it … lucky!

yum install flash-plugin

Restart the web browser and yourtube should work

Meflin

#5

Meh missed the edit window.

The files in /etc/yum.repos.d/

are software repository that yum uses to find/down load/install software
from. This one is adobe.

[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated

This is just a name

baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/

This is where it is on the internet.

enabled=1

enabled=0 means we are not using this one

gpgcheck=1

check the cryptography signature = yes to make sure you software is who it claims to be from

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

where to find the cryptography key for the above

yum is the update manager / software installer, a few company’s and some
projects provide such files to let you install software easy. Adobe also offers
acrobat reader via there yum repo in 15 languages.

yum search AdobeReader

yum install AdobeReader_enu

will install the english one
Meflin

#6

GOt it to work! Thanks

#7

If it gets to be a hassle and you’re using Firefox, you can just get libflashplayer.so from adobe keep it on a drive somewhere then copy it to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ after boot.