Whyu is flash installed by default.

[pmithrandir]

Hello,

I did an installtion of MGA5 from the DVD 64 bits KDE.

I had the surprised to find out that flash was installed by default.
It's causing myself 2 questions :
- is it legal, I mean the RPM specifiy we have to agree on the licence from flash, and I don't think I did during the installation process.
- Why to do so.. Since google switched to HTML5 youtube, and dailymotion did the same.. flash is less and less needed... morever in version 11.42 which is really outdated.

This was a strange suprise for me.

[doktor5000]

According to the package list Mageia-5-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.lst and Mageia-5-x86_64-DVD.idx flash is not contained on both.

[pmithrandir]

Hi,

It's really strange.
I installed mageia with the defaut install.
The only remaining thing was my home partition, where I cleaned most of the hidden conf folder before reinstalling.
The only change I did was to remove all 32bits source for RPM and to add tainted.

Main partition was formated.

And yet, at the first install flash plugin was install in 64 bit version.
Any way to check that ? I used the KDE 64 bit installtion, allowed install from internet source to upgrade directly the package, and clicked on KDE at some point... that was it.

Pierre

[doktor5000]

The only remaining thing was my home partition, where I cleaned most of the hidden conf folder before reinstalling.

What means most? If you still had flash plugin in browser plugin folder, that will still be there if you keep your old /home.

Code: Select all

rpm -qa --last | grep flash-player-plugin

should show when it was installed

[pmithrandir]

Hi,

Sorry, but I already removed it... I will check if I have time from scratch.

[doktor5000]

Does not matter, the command will still show when it was installed.
Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks