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TUTORIAL: Flash Player 7.0.25

by Thomas Chung on Jun 06, 2004

Here is updated version of tutorial for HOWTO build flash player 7.0.25 RPM package for Fedora Core.

3 components to download:
1) install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz (Click on Download Now button)
2) EULA.txt (Save the page as a text file)
3) flash-plugin.spec (Save it as a text file)

[tchung@localhost download]$ ls
EULA.txt  flash-plugin.spec  install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
[tchung@localhost download]$ cp install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz EULA.txt ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
[tchung@localhost download]$ cp flash-plugin.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
[tchung@localhost download]$ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
[tchung@localhost SPECS]$ ls
flash-plugin.spec
[tchung@localhost SPECS]$ rpmbuild -ba flash-plugin.spec
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.16182
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot
+ cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf install_flash_player_7_linux
+ /usr/bin/gzip -dc /home/tchung/rpmbuild/SOURCES/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
+ tar -xf -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd install_flash_player_7_linux
++ /usr/bin/id -u
+ '[' 500 = 0 ']'
++ /usr/bin/id -u
+ '[' 500 = 0 ']'
+ /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,g-w,o-w .
+ exit 0
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.92183
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd install_flash_player_7_linux
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ cp /home/tchung/rpmbuild/SOURCES/EULA.txt /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD/install_flash_player_7_linux
+ install -d /var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
+ install -p -m755 libflashplayer.so /var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
+ install -p -m644 flashplayer.xpt /var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/objdump
Processing files: flash-plugin-7.0.25-1.FC
Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.92183
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd install_flash_player_7_linux
+ DOCDIR=/var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-7.0.25
+ export DOCDIR
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-7.0.25
+ /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-7.0.25
+ cp -pr Readme.txt EULA.txt /var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-7.0.25
+ exit 0
Provides: libflashplayer.so
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Requires: libX11.so.6 libXext.so.6 libXmu.so.6 libXt.so.6 libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) 
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.4) libdl.so.2 libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) libm.so.6 libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) 
libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) libz.so.1 mozilla >= 1.4
Obsoletes: flash4 flash5
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot
Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/SRPMS/flash-plugin-7.0.25-1.FC.src.rpm
Wrote: /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/flash-plugin-7.0.25-1.FC.i386.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.69015
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/tchung/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd install_flash_player_7_linux
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/flash-plugin-7.0.25-buildroot
+ exit 0
[tchung@localhost SPECS]$ sudo rpm -Uvh /home/tchung/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/flash-plugin-7.0.25-1.FC.i386.rpm
Password:
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:flash-plugin           ########################################### [100%]
[tchung@localhost SPECS]$