Installing Adobe Flash for Mandriva 2007-I need some help

[houdi]

I have been trying to get Adobe's flashplayer onto my system, but am really lost and having great difficulty doing so. I need some very very basic help doing this. I would appreciate it if someone wouldn't mind helping out someone as ignorant as me!

houdi

[MikeTbob]

Hiya houdi,
You should be able to use Firefox, just browse to any Flash website, like youtube, and you should get a pop up asking if you want to install flash.
If that doesn't work, tell us what you have done so far, and we'll try to help you install it manually.

[houdi]

I have tried that, but have to install it from source. I asked a buddy tonight and he told me how to do it, though I am still having some trouble. I have extracted the file, pulled it up in the terminal window and type in "./install_flash_player_9_linux/" but the next line simply says "is a directory". I am not sure what to do now. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the first post MikeTbob!

houdi

[MikeTbob]

After extracting the file, then change to the directory with
cd directoryname
then use ./configure
make
make install