Locating Flash Player after downloading
 

I am new to this forum and I am a new Linux user. I am running Fedora 11 (Leonidas) using Mozilla Firefox Browser. I downloaded the Adbobe Flash Player, but I cannot find it in my filesystem so I can't execute it. How do I find the file and then execute it. Thanks:newbie:

How did you download the file? Using your web browser? If so, check its default directory for downloads and you should find the file there. As for installing Flash, read the instructions on Adobe's website..

Here it is. Once again. Please make better use of the search engine.
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...1.html#acrobat

To the OP: I realise GNU/Linux can be difficult to change to or master if you're new to it but I do think it is completely unfounded to write "All I have received to my posts are criticism and non-responses. (..) This forum is a waste of time" in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...o-help-739546/ after having been a LQ member for such a short time. I doubt you have really taken the time to at least skim your distributions documentation, searched LQ for similar threads or read how you can benefit from LQ. If you can't even do that then by all means ask the "Director of Engineering" (as if title dropping means anything on LQ) to fix things for "the technologically-challeged housewife" .

Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but I thought I might point out to the original poster that I do understand their frustration. It's not easy to effectively communicate a problem you are having, and in trying to be precise, it's very easy to leave out information that might help people to solve your problem. Sometimes a simple question is actually so generic that no single answer can help you.

In general, it may well be that someone knows the answer straight away and can help you, but very often (as in this case) there are hundreds or even thousands of possible answers to your question, and no-one knows which one is right. So your answers are along the lines of "use your package manager" (which is as specific as you can be without knowing which package manager or distribution you are using).

The best answers you can get to an initial post are often further questions. You have stated the symptoms; if you are asked a question, then the answer to the question will help the replier to actually diagnose the exact problem you are having. Personally, if I ask a question and I don't get an answer to it, then I leave the thread since I can't be of any more help.

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So, a direct answer to your question would look like this:

To find it, you could use in a terminal. This, of course, requires you to know the filename. (There are graphical tools available, but none as ubiquitous as locate) If you don't, then you will have to look at whatever you used to download the file to find out either what it's called or where it was downloaded to. I am going to guess that you downloaded the file with a web browser of some sort. Since there are at least a dozen web browsers in common use, I can't provide instructions on how to find recent downloads on all of them (I only tend to use two) — but you should find some sort of recent downloads option somewhere in the menu. This should tell you what the file is called and where it was downloaded to.

You don't want to run the file, you want to install it. In the case of browser plugins, you normally have to unpack the file and/or save it in a special directory (see your browser's instructions for how to do this). The instructions vary between browsers.

Downloading a plugin and installing it by hand is a cumbersome method, and there's usually a much easier way to install the package through your distibution's package manager. Of course, I can't be more specific without knowing which package manager you are using, although I could guess this if I knew which distribution you are using.