Fedora won't distribute from their site because Macromedia's license doesn't permit it, but there are no other legal barriers to using the RPMs at http://macromedia.mplug.org/.
Follow those directions, dropping the Macromedia repository configuration in your .:: telegra.ph ::. /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. It should look much like this:
[macromedia] name=Macromedia for i386 Linux baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY |
Then do the installation:
yum install flash-plugin |
Installing this RPM should put the plugin in your Firefox plugin directories (and Mozilla's as well). [Open Source Flask] .:: rotorbuilds.com ::.
You can test your flash support at the official test page. Note that you may have to kill and restart your browser after installing the plugin; I tried the Flash test immediately and it crashed Firefox. [Xamarin Questions] .:: onne.link ::.
There's a gotcha: The Macromedia plugin works only for 32-bit Intel boxes. It completely fails on an x86_64 running in 64-bit mode (in general, 32-bit plugins won't work in a 64-bit browser). Currently there are three projects addressung this problem: .:: telegra.ph ::.
gplflash1 is the orignal GPL Flash plugin. Only handles SWF up to level 4.
gplflash2 half-works, with painful amounts of flicker, and frequently crashes Firefox. This rewrite of gplflash has been abandoned in favor of gnash. .:: telegra.ph ::. .:: jobs.siliconflorist.com ::. .:: postheaven.net ::.
gnash promises full support for SWF up to level 7, but is still in early development and surrounded by warnings.
I think the right stopgap on 64-bit systems might be to build and install gplflash1, but as of 21 Mar 2006 I can't because it needs an X header file I cannot yet find the right RPM for. This may change as the dust settles around FC5.