Installation Instructions for VLC Player for Fedora 8

Become root. Execute the following commands at the terminal:

#> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
#> yum install vlc

VLC player supports almost all input streams, and contains decoders for almost every codec one could possibly come across, today. One stop solution for all your media playback issues in Fedora 8...

Flash player installation for Firefox and Opera

Instructions for setting up flash player plugin for Firefox and Opera:
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1. Login as root
2. Unzip the tar.gz file onto the Desktop
3. Rename the extracted folder as 'flash'
4. Copy the folder into the /opt directory
5. Create a link to the 'libflashplayer.so' file
6. Copy the link file into /opt directory
7. Rename the link file to 'libflashplayer.so', that is, without the 'Link to..' part
8. For Firefox, copy the link file into the 'plugins' directory of your current firefox version
9. For Opera, copy the link file into the /home/USER_NAME/.opera/plugins directory, for every non-root user, and in the /root/USER_NAME/.opera/plugins directory for Root. Create the 'plugins' folder under each of the usernames, in case it does not exist.
10. Restart all browsers for which you have installed Flash
11. Test the working, and let me know if there are any problems