Complete technophobe trying to install Flash?

[RH3112]

I work abroad so like to update friends and family with pictures on facebook, I can currently only upload 5 at a time (barely! i it so slow) so tried to upload the flash player it offers. I click the button which takes me to the adobe page and then I am lost as it asks which version I want
a) how do I work out what version I want
and
b) will that be it once I click download?

Sorry I can use a computer for your day to day things but when it comes to ANYTHING other than that I am stumped

Thanks in advance

[kewlharsh]

Hello there,

I would need more information about your computer and OS. Are you using a windows or a linux OS? If it is a linux OS, which distro is it? if you are using windows, you select the .exe file to download. For linux distros it would be a .tar.gz or .rpm or .deb file to download. Once you have downloaded the file, you simply double click it and the installation should start.

Cheers

[arochester]

Once you have downloaded the file, you simply double click it and the installation should start.

Unfortunately no.

double click

=a Windows thing.

the installation should start

=a Windows thing.

The main question to be answered is

which distro is it?

[RH3112]

At the risk of sounding like a total girl (sorry to any tech-y girls) what is a distro??

I know it's an Acer Aspire one on linux?

Does Linpus linux lite v1.0 13.E help?

[Segfault]

IMO Linpus is dead, normally in Linux you just use the package manager to install software, no need to download anything manually.
Linpus is not maintained, no security updates, no software updates ...

Just get a better Linux.

[reed9]

At the risk of sounding like a total girl (sorry to any tech-y girls) what is a distro??

I know it's an Acer Aspire one on linux?

Does Linpus linux lite v1.0 13.E help?

Hello.

Distro = distribution. Sort of different flavors of linux.

Linpus Lite is the default distro of the Acer Aspire One. It is, unfortunately, kind of awful, from many reports. It is also based on a very old version of a distro called Fedora, which is no longer maintained.

In linux, software usually comes as "packages", roughly equivalent to an installable .exe file in Windows. However, unlike Windows, they are usually not self contained, but share libraries (bit of software providing a common function) with other programs. Packages are also not usually compatible between different distros or even different versions of the same distro. Broadly speaking the linux world is divided into those distros using an rpm package format and those use a deb package format. Linpus uses rpm and is mostly compatible with packages built for Fedora 8.

I thought linpus had an old version of flash installed by default. To upgrade, you need to get into a terminal. (Some terminal basics, mostly applicable to any distro.)

To do so, go to Files -> My Documents to open the file manager and then File -> Terminal

Enter this into the terminal

sudo rpm -e flash-plugin
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-10.1.53.64-release.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -U flash-plugin-10.1.53.64-release.i386.rpm

It may ask you for your password, which I believe should have been set on the first boot of the computer. Note that when you enter the password in the terminal, you won't see any output on the screen as a security precaution. Trust that it is typing.