On Friday 23 February 2007, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello, all--
Re: 9.3
I have Flash version 7.x, and I can't get rid of it to try and get the latest version, which I seem to need on a regular basis. When I go to YaST and select "Add or Remove Programs," I can get Flash to come up on the right hand window, but when I select one of the two top selections (the third is supposed to be something that will fowl up the kernel) and try to delete it, nothing happens. I have tried to use the YaST program in the text mode, but I can't seem to get that to do anything.
On another note, in the console mode I can see a Timezone update, again I can't get that to work either, but I can't see that update in the GUI version of YaST.
So I need help on two fronts: please tell me how to get the latest version of the Flash plug-in installed (I think, but I'm not certain, the s/w is on the machine, somewhere) and: how do I get the Timezone program--which must be on a remote server somewhere, but YaST probably knows that--to install.
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This might be a job for... Shell, man! Usually if the gui way is not
working for you and you're sure that the SuSE rpm of flash is installed
(rpm -q <correct flash name>) to check. You can use the shell/konsole
as root to remove it manually.
Open shell window
type: su
root password
rpm -e <flash filename>
All done removing file!
Or, you can download the two files you want to update, again using the
shell as root to update with: rpm -Uhv