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Quote:next up, lets install the Flash pluginuse vi to create a new file

Code:
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo

<div>

now copy the below and paste it into the file

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="2357" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic">[macromedia]name=Macromedia for i386 Linux

baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY

save the file with :wq

Code:
yum -y install flash-plugin

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I have followed that right up the the red bit. After I have pasted the above into terminal and literally did...

Code:
[macromedia]

name=Macromedia for i386 Linux

baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY

:wq

[pressed return key]

It don't do anything o_O

no no no

you dont paste it into a terminal, you paste it into the application called 'vi'

like so

vi somefile.txt

then paste some stuff into that file

then to SAVE your changes and EXIT vi you must type the following (press ESCape first to exit INSERT/REPLACE mode)

:wq

the : tells vi it's going into COMMAND mode, the 'w' tells vi to WRITE the file (save) and the 'q' tells vi to QUIT

please try this again

cheers

anyweb

Ohh right, I didn't realise that I had to press exit. Never used VI before, must apologies :)

Still got a slight problem. I've even logged into root to delete the original file, but I still hit a dead wall. When I do:

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo

it gives me...

Code:
E325: ATTENTION

Found a swap file by the name "/etc/yum.repos.d/.flash.repo.swp"

      owned by: root   dated: Sat Jul  8 15:14:04 2006

     file name: /etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo

      modified: YES

     user name: root   host name: localhost.localdomain

    process ID: 19454

While opening file "/etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo"

(1) Another program may be editing the same file.

If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two

different instances of the same file when making changes.

Quit, or continue with caution.

(2) An edit session for this file crashed.

If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r /etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo"

to recover the changes (see ":help recovery").

If you did this already, delete the swap file "/etc/yum.repos.d/.flash.repo.swp"

to avoid this message.

"/etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo" [New File]

Hit ENTER or type command to continue

I hit [Enter] and then re-paste...

[macromedia]

name=Macromedia for i386 Linux

baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY

Followed by > ESC + :wq

Then I paste...

yum -y install flash-plugin

....and I get this error message.....

Code:
[root@localhost ~]# yum -y install flash-plugin

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?

yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])

 File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main

base.getOptionsConfig(args)

 File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 177, in getOptionsConfig

self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 104, in doConfigSetup

self.getReposFromConfig()

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 135, in getReposFromConfig

parser.read(files)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 225, in read

IncludingConfigParser.read(self,filename)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 126, in read

ConfigParser.read(self,filename)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read

self._read(fp, filename)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read

raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)

ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.

file: ///etc/yum.repos.d/flash.repo, line: 1

'cromedia]\n'

[root@localhost ~]#

Help :(

Nee worry, sorted it :)

mizzy

anyweb

mizzy

mizzy