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>4. Macromedia Flash</H1
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>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 <A
HREF="http://macromedia.mplug.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>http://macromedia.mplug.org/</A
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>Follow those directions, dropping the Macromedia repository
configuration in your <TT
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>/etc/yum.repos.d/</TT
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It should look much like this:</P
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>&#13;[macromedia]
name=Macromedia for i386 Linux
baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY
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>Then do the installation:</P
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>Installing this RPM should put the plugin in your Firefox
plugin directories (and Mozilla's as well).</P
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>You can test your flash support at the
<A
HREF="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/"
TARGET="_top"
>official test
page</A
>. 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.</P
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>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:</P
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><A
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>gplflash1</A
> is the
orignal GPL Flash plugin. Only handles SWF up to level 4.</P
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><A
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>gplflash2</A
>
half-works, with painful amounts of flicker, and frequently crashes
Firefox. This rewrite of gplflash has been abandoned in favor of
gnash.</P
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><A
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>gnash</A
>
promises full support for SWF up to level 7, but is still in early
development and surrounded by warnings.</P
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>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.</P
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