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Install Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash on 64-bit Fedora

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Installing Acrobat Reader and Flash Player on 64 bit Linux machines

Acrobat Reader

  1. Download and install the Adobe Release RPM (one-time step only)
    wget http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
    rpm -ivh adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  2. Run the Yum command with the Adobe Reader for your language, as follows:
    For first time installations:
    yum install AdobeReader_enu
    For updates:
    yum update AdobeReader_enu
  3. Run Acrobat Reader
    acroread &

Note: It might complain a bit about some lib file when running for the first time, but that shouldn’t stop it from running or working properly

Adobe Flash

  1. Make use of the same Adobe repo file used by Acrobat Reader
  2. Download yum version of flash player from: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
  3. Run:

    [For Fedora 10]
    su -c ‘yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 \
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