On the Lookout

While looking for ways to enable flash in my 64bit version of Firefox 3 beta 2 on Fedora 8 and having no luck with the instructions from fedorafaq.de, I finally came across a french site. Although I do not speak French I recognize commands (they are still in English) and some words look familiar; I ended up on this page and tried to make sense of it.

Land in Sight

First I uninstalled everything related to firefox, flash, and plugins. Then I added another repository to yum:
su -
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/remi-fedora.repo

Next comes importing remi’s GnuPG key, so yum and rpm wont complain:
cd /tmp
wget http://remi.collet.free.fr/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

We are getting there! Now we install Firefox 3 beta 2 from remi’s repository:
yum --enable remi-test install firefox3

Finally, we are following the fedorafaq again:
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper
mozilla-plugin-config

Just to be on the safe side I ran the last command as normal user again:
mozilla-plugin-config

it works, it works

After this I started Firefox 3 from the Application Menu and typed about:plugins into the address bar. And lo and behold, it showed flash was loaded. Finally I can view flash films in my favorite browser.