I need assistance updating to flash 10

[arhunter]

I need to update to flash 10, I have downloaded tar ball and need assistance installing the plugin. Using Linspire 6.0.17. Also need to upgrade to most recent version of firefox. Thanks...

[saivin]

You downloaded from adobe site? Preferably we should install from the package manager of our distro. Linspire has CNR (Click-N-Run) software installation application right? Did you check in it?

Wrt file you downloaded, which type you downloaded rpm, deb or tar.gz?

If it is rpm,

rpm -Uvh <flashplayer>.rpm

if it is deb package,

dpkg -i <flashplayer>.deb

I guess, Linspire uses .deb formats.
In case you have downloaded .tar.gz format,

tar zxvf <flashplayer>.tar.gz
cp <libflashplayer>.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

where <flashplayer> is the name of the flashplayer format you have downloaded and <libflashplayer> is the .so format file that get extracted. All commands to be executed as root (except for tar)