On Wednesday 20 November 2002 08:33 am, you wrote:
> Hi I went to Macromedia, the instructions said to save the installer to
> my desktop, which I did, then it says, unpackage the file...the reading
> I'm doing says that there could be some sort of unzip utility to run
> file ends in tar.gz  macromedias instructions are clear if I knwe what I
> was doing I guess
>
>
Step-by-Step (this is the way I do it, you may modify if you wish)

Download the gzipped file  (flash_linux.tar.gz or whatever this version 
happens to be named)
At this point I usually copy the tarball to /usr
As root, I Cd to the directory the file is in (in my case #cd /usr) and 
unpack it with the command:

#tar -xzvf flash_linux.tar.gz  
the command is:                                                               
 tar -xzvf the_flashplayer_tarfile_name

A directory /usr/flash_linux will be created.  Inside that directory will be 
two files --libflashplayer.so & ShockwaveFlash.class

Copy these two files to your /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory  (and to your 
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins directory if you use Netscape)

Now, when you open Mozilla, the Help>about Plug-ins list will have Shockwave 
Flash.  It should work for you (always has for me)


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