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How to Enable Flash in Google Chrome for Fedora 11 i686

Jul 27th

Posted by raja in How To

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So you’ve installed the latest development builds of Chromium for Fedora Linux. The only thing lacking is that youtube is not loading. If not, what are you waiting for? Refer to one of my previous posts.

First make sure you install the Adobe yum repository.

As root:-

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Then install the flash plugin.

yum install flash-plugin.i386

The flash plugin will be installed in /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

Chrome plugins are supposed to be located in /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins. So lets create a symbolic link, so that whenever your Adobe flash plugin is updated, your Chrome automatically gets the latest version.

n -sv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Now start your Chrome browser from the command line, with the --enable-plugins switch. This will enable the flash plugin.

Here’s a screenshot of me watching a video from youtube on chrome:-

Flash Player in Google Chrome for Linux

Flash Player in Google Chrome for Linux

Say goodbye to geek productivity once this is done :D

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How to install Google Chrome in Fedora 10 or Fedora 11

Jul 4th

Posted by raja in How To

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Google has its open source version of its Chrome browser, currently under heavy development. The open source version is called Chromium.

Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway, the Fedora Engineering Manager, has created a rpm repository with precompiled versions of the chromium browser.

To install chromium, create a chromium.repo file in your /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

vim /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo

Then fill it up with this:-

[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

After that, just yum install chromium

[root@atreides ~]# yum install chromium
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: mirror.oscc.org.my
 * rpmfusion-free: mirror.transact.net.au
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.transact.net.au
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.transact.net.au
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.transact.net.au
 * updates: ftp.riken.jp
chromium                                                 | 1.2 kB     00:00
chromium/primary                                         | 2.4 kB     00:00
chromium                                                                    7/7
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package chromium.i586 0:3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libv8.so.0 for package: chromium-3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11.i586
--> Running transaction check
---> Package v8.i586 0:1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
 
Dependencies Resolved
 
================================================================================
 Package     Arch    Version                                  Repository   Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 chromium    i586    3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11      chromium     11 M
Installing for dependencies:
 v8          i586    1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11             chromium    858 k
 
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
 
Total download size: 12 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 12 M
(1/2): chromium-3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11.i586 |  11 MB     01:11
(2/2): v8-1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11.i586.rpm          | 858 kB     00:06
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           149 kB/s |  12 MB     01:19
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing     : v8-1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11.i586                     1/2
  Installing     : chromium-3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11.i586        2/2
 
Installed:
  chromium.i586 0:3.0.191.0-0.1.20090628svn19474.fc11
 
Dependency Installed:
  v8.i586 0:1.2.9-1.20090626svn2284.fc11
 
Complete!

And walla!! Chromium for Fedora !!!

Here’s a screenshot of Chromium running on my machine:
chromium
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