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Just started using Fedora Core 5. I installed it a couple of weeks ago, but have been working a lot and haven’t played around much with it. I decided I needed to install flash and downloaded it from Adobe. I untared the file and followed their instructions, but it didn’t work. I also tried issuing a “yum install flash-plugin”, but that failed to actually download and install anything.

After searching the internet, I found the answer. I had to add a new repository and then yum would work. Went into /etc/yum.repos.d, created a new file and entered the following text and then yum worked like a charm:
[macromedia]
name=Macromedia for i386 Linux
baseurl=http://macromedia.rediris.es/rpm/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY

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