Hello...newbie here...

I am trying to copy libflashplayer.so to mozilla plugin folder but
i copy the file...go to the plugin folder and right click to paste and
the paste feature is grayed out. I tried control-c and cont-v , then
tried to copy in terminal...but it doesn't find the downloads folder
for me to cp the file.

i am using the dolphin file manager...

can anybody help?
thanks

Hi, try rsync to send the file.

see how you go, type rsync --help to see the options.

Regards Glenn

hi Glenn,
Thanks for the help, however it appears the problem is permissions? see the message i get as follows:

dave@ubuntu:~/Desktop/flash$ cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so': Permission denied.

using rsync:

dave@ubuntu:~$ rsync -avh /home/dave/Desktop/flash/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
sending incremental file list
libflashplayer.so
rsync: mkstemp "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/.libflashplayer.so.PfwHAn" failed: Permission denied (13)

I checked my permissions...and I have full permissions. So, I'm totally baffled here.

dave

ok, thanks anyway guys....solved my problem. went back to basic ubuntu and installed the flash player in Software center. Easy as pie...geez...lol.

Hi Dave, you need to be root to write outside of /home/...

type su and enter the root password to continue.

Make sure you type exit to logout of the root shell. (when you finish doing this, if so..)

But otherwise, rsync preserves the file permissions for the file being transfered.

Another way I used to use was, as root, creating soft links from the libflashplayer.so file,

and then when the update comes out, just change the file in /home/../..someplace. (maybe not downloads, you get the idea, I hope.

dave@ubuntu:~/Desktop/flash$ sudo ln -s libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and if applicable,
dave@ubuntu:~/Desktop/flash$ sudo ln -s libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

You shouldn't have to do this, But over time I found it easier to keep my /home/glenn/.mozilla/plugins folder up to date and use that as my linking spot, for /root/.mozilla/plugins to, when I need it(not often).

Anyhow, Glad you got it going.

Cheers and regards Glenn