On 2011/10/06 07:38, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
>
>> On 2011.10.06 at 05:05:05 -0700, jdow wrote next:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:05:05 -0700
>>> From: jdow <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> X-Original-To: mosgalin@localhost
>>> Subject: Flash plugin
>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929
>>> Thunderbird/7.0.1
>>>
>>> I have the elrepo 64 bit beta flash plugin installed. A 32 bit flash update
>>> is being forced on my system. Here are the error messages.
>>>
>>> Transaction Check Error:
>>> file /usr/share/applications/flash-player-properties.desktop from
>>> install of flash-plugin-11.0.1.152-release.i386 conflicts with file
>>> from package flash-plugin-11.0.1.129-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64
>>
>> There is no flash plugin in elrepo. You seem to have one from rpmforge
>> installed. Either wait until x86_64 package appears in rpmforge, or
>> uninstall it, then install official adobe yum repository and install
>> flash plugin from there..
>
> RPMforge provides already the (beta) 64bit flash-plugin, so there's no need to
> wait for it. In this case the 64bit is installed, so there is no reason to
> install the 32bit. Unless you want to replace the 64bit by the 32bit.

That is entirely true. Now, I need to convince "yum update" of this pesky
detail.

(And sorry about tracking down which repo I got it from. I stopped too soon
on the version and literally didn't see the .rf in there. My bad.)

The problem is that "yum update" insists I need the 32 bit version of the
flash plugin.

{^_-}

> If that is the case (beware, you may need to change browsers, or install another
> plugin) you should uninstall the 64bit package first.
>
> RPMforge tracks the flash-plugin releases and packages them asap because there
> is an important security impact for systems that have it installed.
>