Verily I say unto thee, that wjp spake thusly:
> Now here is where Linux is NOT simple, NOT easy. I could not, and have
> not yet found those three files or the directory where they're located.
If you're running Debian, then why are you messing around with tarballs
when there's a Deb package?
http://packages.debian.org/flashplugin-nonfree
On Fedora, installing and updating Flash is as easy as:
rpm -ivh
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum install flash-plugin
In fact IIRC Firefox will simply download and install Flash as a plugin
upon first attempt at using it, if it isn't already installed.
> I did a file search and it showed that the files are out there, but,
> when I opened a terminal, I could not get to them. Okay, I give up.
You seem to be getting into an awful pickle over nothing. Browsers ...
/all/ browsers, have a standard download location, which is usually the
Desktop by default. Quite why you "can't get to them" is a mystery indeed.
Example:
In Firefox I click on
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
A dialogue box opens asking me what to do with the file.
I choose "Save to disk", then OK.
I choose the location (Desktop), and then "Save".
I double click on the tarball, and file-roller opens.
>From there I can view or extract files (just like Winzip). I choose to
extract to the Desktop, and navigate to the directory called
"install_flash_player_9_linux".
According to the flashplayer_installer script:
echo "You are running the $PRODUCT installer as the \"root\" user."
echo "$PRODUCT $VERSION will be installed system-wide."
else
echo "You are running the $PRODUCT installer as a non-root user."
echo "$PRODUCT $VERSION will be installed in your home directory."
I would tend to use a bash shell to install Flash system-wide as root,
except I don't need to do it that way, because I just use RPM/DEB like
every other GNU/Linux user (except Gentoo or Slackware users, perhaps).
In fact, since Adobe's proprietary Flash plugin has /still/ not been
built with AMD64 support, I need to use the GPL Gnash instead, which
/does/ support 64 bit. Installing that on my system is just as easy ...
easier in fact, since I don't need to bloat my system with a huge array
of otherwise redundant 32 bit dependencies.
BTW, I don't use Epiphany, but it's my understanding that it uses
plugins in the Mozilla plugins directory, so simply installing Flash in
the prescribed manner should make it available to both Firefox /and/
Epiphany (and other Gecko browsers).
> Bill Powell
> Systems Managemnt Analyst
Seems hard to believe.
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