[SOLVED] A Simple Flash Player Installation Problem

[nujinini]

Hello!

I am now in the process of doing a fresh install of my distros and I have encountered this seemingly minor problem that have kept me trying to solve for the last two hours.

Flash Player for youtube on my Fedora 10 (2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686)

I have downloaded the following and I would like to ask for some help in figuring this out, please

Hereunder are my outputs:

[jun@localhost ~]$ sudo tar xvfz /home/jun/Download/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz 
[sudo] password for jun: 
libflashplayer.so
[jun@localhost ~]$

I don't know how to proceed from here

What is really frustrating is that I was able to make it play two days ago. Darn! I guess my brains are just squeezed dry as of the moment. Thank you for the help

[coopstah13]

It has to go in the plugins folder, on Arch it is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

That might be it on fedora as well, but I can't be certain.

[nujinini]

Hi,

Thank you! Actually I was able to do it just right now. All I had to do was leave my laptop for 4 hours, take a walk, and when I went back tonight, I had the solution.

Installation instructions for .rpm

       1. Click the download link to begin installation. A dialog box will appear asking you where to save the file.
       2. Save the .rpm file to your desktop and wait for the file to download completely.
       3. In terminal, navigate to the desktop and type # rpm -Uvh <rpm_package_file>. Click Enter. (Note: This must be done as a root user). The installer will instruct you to shut down your browser(s).
       4. Once the installation is complete, the plug-in will be installed in your Mozilla browser. To verify, launch Mozilla and choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser menu.

It was right under my nose.