fedora10 flash

So, Fedora 10 is out and that’s absolutely awesome. I just reinstalled my systems (and updated my software guide) and it installed without a glitch.

The only annoying problem I faced is that I got no sound with my Fedora 10 x86-64 linked with the traditional Adobe Yum repository (which provides a 32-Bit Flash version) + libflashsupport. The reason is simple: libflashsupport was removed from Fedora. It has just been replaced by a new solution described on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash

Another solution to get the sound back is by installing the 64-Bit Flash version which is still in alpha. You probably want a howto? Here it is…

• rpm -e nspluginwrapper.i386 flash-plugin (if you have installed them)
• cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ (this is where your Firefox plugins are)
• wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz (to download the Flash plugin)
• tar -xvzf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz (to extract the plugin)

Restart Firefox and it works.