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threatingbehaviour 05-21-2009 02:26 PM

problems installing flashplayer
 
Hi I'm running opensuse 11 on vmplayer and I download the tar.gz file from adobes website and open it with arc extract it to /home/vmplanet and I get two files flashplayer-installer and libflashplayer.so I open the terminal and type in flashplayer-installer permission denied ok so I run as the root and type in the same thing...bash: flashplayer-installer: command not found ok so now I type in /home/vmplanet/flashplayer-installer and get permission denied so wtf any help on this would be great thanks

weibullguy 05-21-2009 05:15 PM

The installer doesn't come with the executable bit set.
Code:

chmod +x flashplayer-installer &&
./flashplayer-installer


threatingbehaviour 05-21-2009 08:12 PM

wow thanks worked like a charm but anyway I have another problem I have a Synaptics Touchpad V6.2 on PS/2 port 3 and everything works fine with it except I am unable to use the scroll feature (rolling my finger along the right side of the pad) in vmware player with opensuse 11 hope your able to help me with this one to thanks

AwesomeMachine 05-21-2009 08:42 PM

You can configure touchpad scrolling from within sax2.

threatingbehaviour 05-22-2009 12:13 AM

yes I have done this in both sax and yast but still nothing any other suggestions


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