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Trouble extracting and installing Adobe flash player

Hi,
I'm on Slackware 13.0.
I downloaded the tar file for Adobe flash player (install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz) to my /tmp.

But when I invoke "tar -xzvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz" all I get is a file libflashplayer.so in the same /tmp directory.

I was expecting a folder with the same name and more than the one file in it. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Ash.

From
http://www.basicconfig.com/install_a...lackware_linux

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Update!

The new 'install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz' file contains only 'libflashplayer.so' file when you extract it. What you need to do is just copy the libflashplayer.so file to the /firefox/plugins directory (and other web browser as well). Here's the complete 'howto' steps:

1. Download 'install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz' from adobe website.
2. Extract it when the download is finished. The command is tar zxvf /path-to/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz.
3. Copy 'libflashplayer.so' to /usr/lib/firefox-3.X.XX/plugins directory. Here is the command example: cp /path-to/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.13/plugins.
4. Open Firefox web browser. Type about:plugins to verify flash player.

That's all.
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hope that helps.

Hi, generally, I copy the .so file to my users plugins directory.

And then link it to where The other programs might look for it.

Code:

cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

# sudo wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

sudo tar xvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

# rm install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

ls

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /home/glenn/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /root/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so



sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/npconfig /usr/bin/nspluginwrapper

HTH, Glenn

I also have an install script (bash) that came with one of the earlier packages.
~/bin/setup-flash.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup

# These are the standard browser locations as found within Red Hat, Mandrake

# and SuSE Linux, and the tarball installers.

LOCATIONS="/usr/lib64/mozilla /usr/lib64/mozilla-* /usr/lib64/firefox-* /usr/lib64/seamonkey-* /usr/lib64/netscape /usr/lib64/opera /usr/lib64/firefox /usr/lib/mozilla /usr/lib/mozilla-* /usr/lib/firefox-* /usr/lib/seamonkey-* /usr/lib/netscape /usr/lib/opera /usr/lib/firefox /usr/local/netscape /usr/local/mozilla /usr/local/firefox /usr/local/seamonkey /opt/mozilla /opt/netscape /opt/firefox /opt/seamonkey" 



deleteold() {

# Detect, Backup and Delete old global Flash plugins

# Old plugin files are saved in /root/oldflashplugins.tar.gz

# tar and gzip must be installed

if [ ! -f /root/oldflashplugins.tar.gz ]; then

    FILES="libflashplayer.so ShockwaveFlash.class flashplayer.xpt libgnashplugin.so"

    for DIR in $LOCATIONS

    do

        # Skip symlinks

        if [ -h $DIR ]; then continue; fi



        for F in $FILES

        do

            # Add old plugin files to backup and delete lists

            if [ -f $DIR/plugins/$F ]

            then

                BACKUPLIST="$BACKUPLIST $DIR/plugins/$F"

                DELETELIST="$DELETELIST $DIR/plugins/$F"

            fi

            # Add symbolic links to the delete list

            if [ -h $DIR/plugins/$F ]

            then

                DELETELIST="$DELETELIST $DIR/plugins/$F"

            fi

        done

    done



    # Backup and Delete files if delete list contains files.

    if [ "x$DELETELIST" != "x" ]

    then

        # If tar is available, backup files

        tar --version >& /dev/null

        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

            tar cfz /root/oldflashplugins.tar.gz $BACKUPLIST >& /dev/null

            rm -f $DELETELIST

            echo 

            echo "NOTICE:"

            echo "Files belonging to older Flash plugins have been removed from the filesystem.  For your safety these files have been saved in /root/oldflashplugins.tar.gz.  You may remove this tarball if these files are no longer required."

        else

            echo

            echo "Error: tar is unavailable."

            echo "Unable to backup old Flash plugin files.  They were deleted in order to prevent conflicts." 

        fi

    fi

fi





# Remove /etc/flash.license as it is not used anymore

[ -f /etc/flash.license ] && rm -f /etc/flash.license

}



detectbrowsers() {

# Detect Mozilla plugin compatible browsers

for DIR in $LOCATIONS

do

    # Skip symlinks

    if [ -h $DIR ]; then continue; fi

    if [ -d $DIR/plugins ]; then export LIST="$LIST $DIR"; fi

done

}



link() {

# Link Mozilla plugin compatible browsers

for DIR in $LIST

do

    ln -sf /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so $DIR/plugins/libflashplayer.so

    ln -sf /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so $DIR/plugins/libflashplayer.so

done

}



deletelinks() {

# Delete symlinks

# Remove Mozilla plugin compatible browsers

for DIR in $LIST

do

    rm -f $DIR/plugins/libflashplayer.so

done

}



#=======================

# Main Section

#=======================

# Pre-Uninstall

if [ "$1" = "preun" ]; then

    detectbrowsers

    deletelinks

    exit 0

fi



# Installation

if [ "$1" = "install" ]; then

    deleteold

    detectbrowsers

    link

    exit 0

fi



# Upgrade

if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ]; then

    detectbrowsers

    link

    exit 0

fi



# Manual Setup



detectbrowsers

link

Regards Glenn

Thank you all. I got it to work.

There is also a flashplayer package on the Slackware mirrors in the /extra directory.