If you really want to cheat, go to netscape and download and install netscape 7, it will install, java, flash and whatever that other big thing is, (cant remember off hand.
Luke On Wednesday 20 November 2002 10:20 pm, erylon hines wrote: > 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) -- Luke Vandervort Linux, because rebooting is for adding new hardware ...
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