Issue while installing flash player in Red Hat Enterprise Linux V5.1

[LeelaKumar1986]

Hi Guyzzzz........

'm new to the world of Linux and comin to the topic..... I hav successfully installed RHEL5.1 on my system. I downloaded flash player from Adobe website. I chose RPM from the download type.

Now, I can find an icon on my GUI for the flash player. When I right-click the icon and click on "Open with software installer", I was able to install flash player. Even the system showed that the software has been installed. But still when I issue the command rpm -qi flash the output says that flash is not installed.

Is there any correct way to install the rpm package.

I even tried to install using rpm -ivh <flash player pkg name> even that did'nt work......

I have another query... where does the package gets installed when I download RPM's or any other software from the internet.. I want to know the path where the pkgs will be sotred.....

Cheers.....
Leela

[Rubberman]

Use yum to install the rpm. As root: yum install filename.rpm
You can also install as non-root user with: sudo yum install filename.rpm
RHEL 5 uses yum to manage packages and you should normally use that instead of rpm, even to install rpm files.