Fedora 17 - Adobe Flash

Fedora does not come shipped with the Adobe Flash player.  The following directions install the Adobe software repository, and install the Flash Player.  Please note that the instructions are different for 32 and 64 bit systems.


32-bit systems

As root,

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yum -y install --nogpgcheck http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y install flash-plugin

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64-bit systems

As root,

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yum -y install --nogpgcheck http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum -y install flash-plugin

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If you had Firefox open at the time of install, you will need to close Firefox and reopen it in order to use the Flash player