I am trying to intall the Flash player. I follow the readme's instructions, but get stuck when the install program asks me to "Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape, or Opera browser (i.e. /usr/lib/mozilla): #". I enter "/usr/lib/mozilla" and it returns "WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path" and prompts me again. What should I enter? (I am running a freshly installed Mandrake 9.2). Thanks

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Probably you need to use the path /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4
That is the actually path with the correct /plugins directory in which extensions will need to be placed. Hope this helps.[/b]

Ditto what maurice71 said. Go into /usr/lib and find out the version you have. Mine is mozilla-1.4.1. Flash will not install to the plain mozilla folder.

HELP >> I've downloaded Flash player from Macomedia.com but now haven't a clue what to do next....

The file "install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz" was downloaded into the tmp folder of my login folder under home.

If I double click on this it opens to a folder called "install_flash_player_6_linux" >> If I double click on this, it present me with 3 files...

flashplayer_installer
flashplayer_xpt
libflashplayer_so

I've tried clicking on these but I just get asked what to open with...?

Where am I going wrong....?

Panic over.....

After reading another thread in this forum, i have descovered how to install the flashplayer..... (should of looked a bit better first... ;( )

It appears that flashplayer has installed ok, I am currently rebooting my laptop as I am typing (from a different system)...

Nah, no good...

After rebooting, I tried launching Mozilla but the little hour glass turns around about 20 times then Mozilla closes.....

What have I done....?

What distro are you using and what version of Mozilla? That will determine how it must be installed.

I'm running Mandrake 9.2 with Mozilla 4.1

hope this helps...

Download and install this...

http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/urpmi/mandrake/9.2/RPMS/flash-plugin-6.0.81-1.i386.rpm