Hm. Tried 'tar -x...' and that didn't work, I still have the same
problem (cursor blinking forever). I had omitted the hyphen from my
first attempt because of this line in the man page:
"The first argument to should be a function; either one of the letters
Acdrtux, or one of the long function names. A function letter
need not
be prefixed with ``-''..."
Other thoughts?
On Jul 8, 1:56 pm, Chris Miller <lordsauronthegr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mike <hotelsamu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am attempting to install an up-to-date flash player on my Ubuntu
> > system. I downloaded and unzipped the .tar file successfully. Now I
> > have a .tar and am unsure what to do with it.
>
> > Two questions:
>
> > 1. How do I "unpack" the tarball? I used
>
> > $ tar x install_flash_player_10_linux.tar
>
> It's `tar -x install_flash_player_10_linux.tar`, not `tar x ...`
>
> > but it took so long that I figured something was wrong and aborted
> > with Ctrl-C.
>
> What was wrong is that it was waiting for input.
>
> > 2. Where should I put the unpacked directory? The .tar file downloaded
> > to my desktop by default and is still there. There must be a more
> > appropriate/standard place to put such things, though. Where?
>
> It will unpack an installer of sorts IIRC. You need to run it.
>
> After that you can delete the installer file. Or you could keep and
> treasure it forever, if that's your thing.
>
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