how do you uncompress a file? I downloaded the Flash Player 7 to install on my Mandriva Linux system and the ReadMe files says to Uncompress the file. Can you tell I am new yet? many thanks!

If the file ends in .tar.gz, run this[code]tar zxvf <filename>.tar.gz/code]and the file will uncompress.

Welcome to LQ

What is the file extension? (If I remember right, it's tar.gz, right?)

So cd to the directory where your file is at (in console) and issue a

tar -xvf filename.tar.gz That will create a directory. CD into that directory and run the installer. If I'm not mistaken, macromedia has some great instructions on how to install.
Kevin

Of course,If the file ends in .zip, run thisand the file will uncompress

kevin,and everyone else
appreciate the quick resposne and I was able to do everything but run the installation. I get a prompt telling me my architecture, \'x86_64\' is not supported by the macromedia flash player installer. what a wonderful world I just encountered. I will saty with it, but I have got a lot to learn with linux.

See posts below...

See post below......

After a bit of searching, I've found the following:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=332366

According to the last post in the thread, the flash player plugin works fine on 64 bit, it's just the install script that doesn't work. According to that thread, you need to

My mandriva install installed firefox 1.0.6 to the following location

/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6/

So you should copy flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so to
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6/plugins

(This is assuming that your firefox is located in the same place mine is)

I don't know the command prompts to copy and paste these files you mentioned. I am able to get to them and have found where my mozzilla firefox is at
/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox . This forum is great, but hence the newbie title.I'm learning

First off, you're looking for your mozilla-firefox directory, not the actual program. /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox would be the actual application. You should look to /usr/lib/ and look for firefox there.

Secondly,there are a couple of things you could do. First off, you could open up a new konqueror window and go your plugins directory. Then open up a new konqueror window and go to your flash directory. Then you could just drag the two files from flash directory to plugins directory

OR you could open up konsole and type
cp /home/user/Desktop/install_flash_player_7/flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
cp /home/user/Desktop/install_flash_player_7/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins

Of course, you would substitute the first path for your flash path and the second path for your firefox plugins path.

Note: You may have to be root to write to /usr/lib. I'm not 100% sure. If you do have to be root, the use the second method of copying, but before typing the cp commands, issue a

su
password

Kevin

Hey I appreciate your last on the the flashplayer. I found that my directory was /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6/plugins

after following your previous, I literrally saw the files transfered on the konqueror, however, they flash player still didn't run. So I rebooted my computer, thinking that had something to do with it, but it still doesn't. what am I missing. I am on a 64bit computer and I did have to be root in order to cp the .xpt and .so files.

many thanks!

Well, you've tried everything I know of. I am not on a 64bit computer, so can't give you anymore insight. Perhaps go to that thread that I mentioned above and PM or email one of the posters and see if they can help you out a little more.

Sorry I can't get it totally solved for you.
Kevin