Bonnie,

That what I needed!  I typically use 'Yum extended' for my package
management, so have become deficient with the command line.  I had the
x86_64 adobe repository enabled, but had to tell Yum specifically what I
wanted.  Thanks again.

T. Rosmond


On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 15:02 -0500, Bonnie King wrote:
> >
> > I am a little confused.  I already have
> >
> >   adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
> >
> > installed on my system because I have the adobe repository enabled.But
> > I only have the i386 flash-player installed, because SL 5.5 apparently
> > didn't support the x86_64 player yet and depended on nspluginwrapper.
> 
> Adobe released the 64-bit repo relatively recently, this dependency was 
> not unique to SL.
> 
> Take a look in your /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe*.repo file(s).  Make sure you 
> are enabling the proper x86_64 repo to locate the 64-bit plugin (the 
> arch will be part of the baseurl path), for example:
> 
> yum --enablerepo=adobe-linux-x86_64 search flash-plugin
> yum --enablerepo=adobe-linux-x86_64 install flash-plugin.x86_64
>