if you use firefox a good howto in this site. http://fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox-flash if you uses mozilla you can get flash installer from macromedia site. untar file copy flashplayer-installer & libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and you all set to go!! have fun On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 20:36 -0400, linux r wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought sybex's linux+ book which says its cd will run over > Linux or some cruddier OS's. I cannot get either the 'flashcards' or > the 'test engine' section of the cd to run over FC1. It tells me to > get the shockwave plug in. I did all this logged in as root, so it > naturally put stuff under /root. Macromedia.com says their downloads > support Red Hat 9, but there shouldn't be a significant differrence > between that and FC1 (right?) > > /mnt/cdrom/Flashcards/PC > It put the flashplayer_installer.tar.gz file under /root > Unpacked it creates a directory called flashplayer_installer > Then it tells you to un-tar it but it says to do so from > /flashplayer_installer. But when I cd to the root, there is no such > directory (thank god I didnt' want it t there anyway). But there ALSO > isn't one under /root anyway so I am confused. ? > > Error messages I get: > tar (child): /root/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz: Cannot open: > No such file or directory > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer-installer: Not found in archive > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > NOW the only thing I know to do -- try to run these things off the cd > --('.exe style').... > When I doublecick any of the icons, it wants to associate an app with > the .swf files that are on the cd which I am hoping will work. > Question for the group is: Is there a way to fool shockwave so I can > get this thing working? > > For giggles meanwhile I just tried to open the electonic book pdf file > on the cd (easy, right?) xpdf tells me it is encrypted and password > protected and it can't open it. ggv tells me 'file is not a vaild > postscript document'. [GRR... this works on an xp box at my > workplace, and did NOT require a password! ] > > Btw, I just upgraded the whole os via yum, also loaded wine to see if > that would work (must I buy 'crossover' and hope for the best? How > irritating, not to get something suppossedly *SO* simple going...Any > info is greatly appreciated! > > > Marc > >
