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so embarassed
worker201:
Did attempt to install it via rpm. It failed. I think the problem was not that it wanted python2.3, it was looking for python and some part of my computer told it that I had python2.3. The python2.3 stuff is there only for backward compatibility. Any program that asked for python SHOULD have been pointed to 2.4, but for some reason, it wasn't.
Anyway. I'd do a clean reinstall, but I have so many programs installed by hand from source that it would take me days to get everything back up.
Master of Reality:
why not just try # rpm -Uvh --nodeps yum
and see if it works.
worker201:
Well, I got my Flash fixed. I had this package called mozilla-swfdec installed, which is supposed to be some kind of substitute Shockwave player. Apparently, it and Flash are not compatible. Unfortunately, endless google searching did not recover any information about the product or possible issues - maybe it was a virus:eek:. Removing it and reinstalling Flash worked just fine, and now Opera and Firefox are Flash-eriffic. I don't miss that Shockwave substitute much, since it never worked anyway.
Anybody else ever hear about this swfdec, and why it doesn't work with Flash?
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---Did attempt to install it via rpm. It failed. I think the problem was not that it wanted python2.3, it was looking for python and some part of my computer told it that I had python2.3. The python2.3 stuff is there only for backward compatibility. Any program that asked for python SHOULD have been pointed to 2.4, but for some reason, it wasn't.
Anyway. I'd do a clean reinstall, but I have so many programs installed by hand from source that it would take me days to get everything back up.
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Fedora keeps telling me stuff like this too ... only for stuff like glibc. I have the correct version installed but it isn't recognized ... or it is recognized as an older version. I usually manage to fix it by removing all versions of the troublesome program or library ... and then re-installing it. This doesn't always work because some of the other versions were installed from source ... and I assume were not registered with yum or registered incorrectly. Anyway there's probably a reason why VoidMain doesn't approve of yum ... it fucks up way too often ? ... I dunno I still find it useful.
mozilla-swfdec sounds like a flash codec ... (flash = .swf) ... I dunno about shockwave ... I never found anything that could run it on Linux ... but I never use shockwave so I could care less
piratePenguin:
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Anybody else ever hear about this swfdec
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http://www.schleef.org/swfdec/
--- Quote ---Swfdec is a library for rendering Flash
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