Can't install flash player - computer in a secure location w/o internet access.
I am running RHEL 7 Desktop in a secured location with no access to the Internet. I am trying to install Flash. I downloaded Flash from Adobe for RHEL 7 and tried using the following commands from https://access.redhat.com/solutions/20920
(Ran as root)
rpm -Uvh /home/bvpsuser/Downloads/ adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum install flash-plugin.x86_64
I cannot access The Internet because this computer is in a secure location. How can I install Flash without having access to The Internet?
Responses
Dale,
I think the easiest method is to manually download the files from the repository using a browser. When installing the adobe-release RPM it will create a repo file in yum.repos.d, browse to the URL in the repo file on a workstation with Internet access and manually download the RPM packages and then copy them in to your secure workstation.
Alternatively, on a workstation with Internet access (if it is same OS / release as your secure workstation OS)
1. Install the RPM using the instructions you have,
2. Install "yum-plugin-downloadonly" using "yum install yum-plugin-downloadonly".
3. "yum install flash-plugin --downloadonly" (which will download the packages, from memory stores in /opt)
4. Copy the downloaded RPM files to your secure workstation and install them with RPM.
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