As I mentioned in a recent entry , Flash has been broken for me for all of Fedora 11 on my 64-bit machine. The comments on my entry caused me to dig into the situation, and after some experimentation (building a fresh installed 64-bit Fedora 11 in a virtual machine to see if Flash worked, which it did), I found my problem and now have working Flash.

In fact, I found the problem doing what I should have done in the first place; I ran ' package-cleanup --problems ', which reported that I had a libflashsupport RPM (in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions) that had unmet dependencies on specific versions of libcrypto.so.6 and libssl.so.6. Removing the libflashsupport RPMs unsurprisingly made Flash work again.

(libflashsupport seems to come from Fedora 8. package-cleanup comes from yum-utils , which I think everyone should have installed.)

I think it's time that I ran all of package-cleanup 's tests to make sure my machine is relatively clean. In fact, I should make a habit of doing this after every Fedora upgrade that I do, because upgrading can easily leave you with exactly this sort of problems.

(Note that not all of what package-cleanup complains about is a genuine problem, especially for its --orphans option.)