I want to install Macromedia Flash. I got as far as the installer operation, and the installer asked me to tell the name of the "installation directory" for Mozilla, Opera, or Netscape.

I searched every way I could think of to find an appropriate directory, and all my answers were rejected by the installer.

Short of trying every one of the several thousand directories/subdirectories, is there a way to find the correct location? (BTW, I don't see why in the world the installer couldn't be made smart enough to find the directory by itself, but then I'm not a programmer, only a simple end-user whose opinions are seldom valued by anybody... Ought to feel lucky to get the computer powered on, I guess.)

They must have updated the installer since the last time I installed flash (about 6 months ago). Last I used it it was just a compressed collection of files and you plop some of them into the mozilla/plugins directory. Do you know where mozilla resides on your system? I'll take a look at it tonight and re-install flash. It might be looking for the original directory (ie where mozilla resided *before* it was installed, or in other words where it was when you first unpacked it. But I can't imagine why it would want to know that.)

/usr/lib/mozilla

You can find out with:
whereis mozilla

Look for a lib directory since you will have several.

Cool

Thanks, jpbarto and MasterC.

The first thing I tried was "whereis mozilla" but every answer was rejected by the Flash installer. Then I used Midnight Commander to do a search for mozilla, and every reasonable finding there was rejected, too!

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is the directory for plugins. If it doesn't work, don't use the installer, get the other version and just copy the .so file to your plugins directory

Cool

Thanks, MasterC: it worked to use that directory.
Flash works, though without SOUND. But I have been having so many sound problems I'm just going to ignore that part for now.

BTW, I still had to search a bit, 'cause on my system the directory is named mozilla-1.1 and not just mozilla. But you put me on the right track!

I have Fedora running on this box and there is no /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory.
Anyone know the location so I can copy to the dir.
Thanks,
Dyrul Courtney
HannaH Computing

dyrul,
try the following:

As root, update the "locate" database:
locate -u

Now give this command:

locate plugins | grep moz

You should get a list of possible candidates.

HTH