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Mentioned earlier how to obtain these plugins, now I've uploaded a package that will configure them for your favourite browsers. You need to install the setup-commercial-plugins package, and it will do the rest.
By default it configures all three for Mozilla and Firefox (and I think Konqueror will pick up the plugins from one or other of them), but advanced users can choose to not have it set up specific plugins by editing /etc/sysconfig/commercial-plugins.
Doing a little Wi-Fi test at college, a couple of WAPs have been ordered today, and I'm currently in the Common Room, talking to the temporary one we've put in the library down the hall. So, with the second as a bridge in here, should work a treat...
Once 10.0 comes out, these three plugins will be available from the FTP site's Extra section, but if you can't wait that long, and want a rocking and rolling RPM installable version of these three for SUSE 10.0 OSS, here's the lowdown:
- Get RealPlayer here - get the RealPlayer 10.0.6 Gold RPM
- Get Flash player here - I used the Conectiva package because of the former connection between the two companies
- Get Adobe Reader here - simply select the .rpm version
To install them, you can either use the command-line and run
rpm -Uvh filename.rpm as the
root user, or even easier, just click on them in your file manager. In both GNOME and KDE, this will open them in KPackage by default. Simply click the Install button at the bottom of the window. This will spawn another window that will give you some options, have the following options enabled:Upgrade, Replace Packages, Check Dependencies. Then click Install again. You will be prompted for the
root user's password, and the package will install. Because I've said to have the "Keep this window" option disabled, you will know it has completed the install because the window will then close.
At some point (possibly this afternoon) I'll do a package that will contain a SuSEconfig module to set all three up for Mozilla (and its babies) and Firefox, which should also therefore make them available to Konqueror. When it's done, I'll announce it here of course.