My flash is all screwy with flashplayer 7: pages don't look right, wont play sounds, etc. but i've been ignoring it until i recently. i wanted to download enemy territory, but the site will not let me on unless i have flash 8. so, i followed the link and downloaded the flash 8 linux package, and ran the installer to /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/(which i believe is my firefox directory, i have another one, but the symbolic link in /usr/bin points to this directory). after the install, i tried going to the page and it still told me i didn't have flash 8, i went to another flash page and when i right clicked on the flash part it said "about flash player 7" so i guess i'm still using flash 7 somehow

What did you download? Adobe/Macromedia don't have a version of Flash player 8 for Linux. We'll have to wait until version 9, when there will be a Linux version available (I think I read it'll be around in 2007).

There should be a plugins subdirectory in the firefox directory.
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/plugins

Put the two files for flash, flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so, in that directory. Alternately, you can put them in ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins where only that user can use them.

so, there's no flash 8 for linux? ...doesn't that mean the enemy territory website is basically excluding linux users? et is one of my favorite native games, now i'm gonna have to download it in windows and mule it over to linux somehow

I know somebody successfully open flash 8 in linux with wine. Put need some step. The detail information I don't have.

go for ie4linux, it give u ie5,5.5,6,flash9. cool.