Installing The Native Linux Flash Player 9 On Ubuntu

I have HUGE question on how to installing Flash player 9 in UBUNTU 6.06 LTS
I have read and flollow youre steps but I have these errors, can you please help me out? I jus got this PC and I am novice with Linux, nad i like to browse video. Thank you for taking your time in my interest.
here is my technical issue:

arturo@freekbox:~$ su
Password:
root@freekbox:/home/arturo# tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz
tar: install_flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
root@freekbox:/home/arturo# tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz
tar: install_flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
root@freekbox:/home/arturo# cd install_flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz

This what I follow from your tutorial page:

3.1 Install The .tar.gz Version

If you have downloaded the .tar.gz version of the Flash Player 9, open a command line terminal and install it like this:

cd /home/falko/Desktop/

(Replace /home/falko/Desktop with the path to the directory where you saved the Flash Player 9 .tar.gz.)

tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux/

Then run the setup script:

sudo ./flashplayer-installer

You will be asked a few questions:

Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved.

Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux

Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.

You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as the "root" user.
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed system-wide.

Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/

To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.

To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C. <-- <ENTER>

NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue... <-- <ENTER>

Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, SeaMonkey,
or Firefox browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): <-- /usr/lib/mozilla

dir= /usr/lib/mozilla

WARNING: An older version of the Adobe Flash Player has been detected in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
The installer will overwrite this existing binary.


Here is where I have save Flash 9 (DESKTOP)
flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz (Description)
/home/arturo/Desktop (location)

I DONT KNOW WHAT WRONG WITH THESE SETTINGS:
/home/arturo/Desktop

tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
tar: install_ this is your own codec


tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz
I have try different other ways but nothing worked

 

What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /home/arturo

?

 

Flash Player 9 On Ubuntu

Falko
Thank you for taking youre time and response to my question;
If I undarstand what your question was my output.

arturo@freekbox:~$
now here is the web page where I got it from.
http://howtoforge.com/native_linux_flash_player9_in_ubuntu

I am looking forward to here from you again.

Thank you, for everthing

Arturo M.

 

I have done this too Falko I am not quite sure what it's but I did these

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake)
$ sudo -i
# wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
# tar zxvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
# cd install_flash_player_9_linux/
# ./flashplayer-installer
# exit
Note that if you install flash in this manner, you will not automatically receive updates for Flash through Ubuntu's package manager.

 

Try this:

Code:

cd /home/arturo
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
tar xfz install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
ls -la

What's the output of the last command?

 

squirt
Try to extract files without an root privileges(be user). Also try to redownload flash player from adobe website.

 

Falko, I like to thank you for taking your time X helping me out

these is my output of the last command
I hope to show you what your asking me for above

arturo@freekbox:~$ cd /home/arturo
arturo@freekbox:~$ wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
--17:05:43-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
=> `install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz'
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 96.6.242.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|96.6.242.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3,994,294 (3.8M) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 3,994,294 2.86M/s

17:05:45 (2.85 MB/s) - `install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz' saved [3994294/3994294]

arturo@freekbox:~$ tar xfz install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
arturo@freekbox:~$ ls -la

total 5232
drwxr-xr-x 24 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-09 17:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-05-30 21:54 ..
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 03:36 .AbiSuite
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 1 2009-05-21 20:28 .airappinstall.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 1 2009-05-21 20:33 .airinstall.log
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-25 21:14 .aptitude
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 5712 2009-06-08 20:18 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 220 2009-05-12 14:39 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 414 2009-05-12 14:39 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 2227 2009-05-12 14:39 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-18 19:38 .config
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 03:41 Desktop
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 26 2009-05-12 14:39 .dmrc
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 16 2009-05-12 14:39 .esd_auth
drwxr-xr-x 8 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-08 21:54 .evolution
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 1029996 2009-06-04 21:38 Firefox_wallpaper.png
drwx------ 4 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-09 16:05 .gconf
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-09 17:05 .gconfd
-rw-r----- 1 arturo arturo 0 2009-06-08 20:03 .gksu.lock
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .gnome
drwx------ 12 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-09 09:00 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:39 .gnome2_private
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 01:17 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 0 2009-05-22 23:30 .gtk-bookmarks
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 88 2009-05-12 14:40 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 2119 2009-06-09 16:05 .ICEauthority
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-06 21:40 .icons
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-02-02 18:06 install_flash_player_10_linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 3994294 2009-02-17 13:46 install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 35 2009-06-06 17:42 .lesshst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36916 2007-09-26 15:54 libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36270 2007-09-27 12:13 libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_i386.deb
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-22 23:34 .local
drwx------ 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .metacity
drwx------ 4 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-17 15:36 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .nautilus
drwx------ 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 02:30 .openoffice.org2
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 1455 2009-06-08 21:25 .recently-used
drwxrwx--- 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-18 20:08 .sane
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 0 2009-05-16 17:30 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-06 21:40 .themes
drwx------ 4 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-18 20:36 .thumbnails
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .update-notifier
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 119 2009-06-09 16:05 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 78928 2009-06-09 17:05 .xsession-errors
arturo@freekbox:~$

that is it FALKO


Am hoping I did what you aske me too

 

Thank you but I have downloaded twiste to my desktop

I have done these twise for saving me time and mistake.
I din't us root login # for what Falko aske me too
as you can see below.
I just wanted to let you know I have Ubuntu 6.06LTS

thank you for youre support.

Art M.

 

Attention to Falko Adobe Flash 9

Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.

I have re-start mY PC
however when I go to youtube or something similiar it gives me the error the JavaScript is turned off or I have an old version of flash? Any suggestions?
I use FireFox Web Browser

Note:
should I delete the one I down load to my desktop (flash Player 9)

Thank you!

 

Sorry but it's really looks like you just can't extract files from archive.

look

libflashplayer.so (10)

libflashplayer.so(9)


Just copy lybflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ it must be looks almost like this:

HTML:

ls -l ~/.mozilla/plugins/

-rwxr-xr-x 1 exn exn 9543400 2009-02-03 06:03 libflashplayer.so
drwx------ 2 exn exn    4096 2009-05-28 05:51 moonlight

Try both versions of flash player, I think 10 will be work too

 

Thank you for youre post

----------- Install Action Summary -----------

Adobe Flash Player 10 will be installed in the following directory:

Mozilla installation directory = /home/arturo/.mozilla

Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y

NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the
components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.

arturo@freekbox:~$ /home/arturo/.mozilla/firefox/dxxwcqge.default/xpti.dat
bash: arturo@freekbox:~$: command not found
arturo@freekbox:~$ bash: /home/arturo/.mozilla/firefox/dxxwcqge.default/xpti.dat: No such file or directory
bash: bash:: command not found
arturo@freekbox:~$ arturo@freekbox:~$
bash: arturo@freekbox:~$: command not found
arturo@freekbox:~$



Installation complete.

 

try

Code:

 sudo rm /home/arturo/.mozilla/firefox/dxxwcqge.default/xpti.dat 

Did you tried to follow my instruction ? just download and copy libflashplayer.so to appropriate directory. It's easy.

 

Hello EXN

I have done what you ask me, but I dint have any good luck, I don't understand why?
here is what happen:
arturo@freekbox:~$ sudo rm /home/arturo/.mozilla/firefox/dxxwcqge.default/xpti.dat
Password:
arturo@freekbox:~$ su
Password:
root@freekbox:/home/arturo# rm /home/arturo/.mozilla/firefox/dxxwcqge.default/xpti.dat
rm: cannot remove `/home/arturo/.mozilla/firefox/dxxwcqge.default/xpti.dat': No such file or directory
root@freekbox:/home/arturo#


I have done everthing, correct?

Can I download in one of my roommate computers in USB drive?
I have done it (yesterday), but when I download it in rapid share nothing happen, I have use before rapid share, so I don't know where the down load when ( after the download the window closed so fast)
I have download flash player 10, I haven't try the number 9
these OS make me feel ignorant, but just because I am newbie.
Thank you again

NOTE:
if you can please told-me if i can do this on another PC with windows XP using my USB that will be great. thank you for you support.

 

What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /home/arturo

now?

 

Thank youFalko

arturo@freekbox:~$ ls -la /home/arturo
total 9140
drwxr-xr-x 25 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-12 09:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-05-30 21:54 ..
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 03:36 .AbiSuite
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 1 2009-05-21 20:28 .airappinstall.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 1 2009-05-21 20:33 .airinstall.log
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-25 21:14 .aptitude
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 122 2009-06-11 09:43 .aspell.en.prepl
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 22 2009-06-11 09:43 .aspell.en.pws
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 6711 2009-06-11 09:48 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 220 2009-05-12 14:39 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 414 2009-05-12 14:39 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 2227 2009-05-12 14:39 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-18 19:38 .config
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 03:41 Desktop
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 26 2009-05-12 14:39 .dmrc
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 16 2009-05-12 14:39 .esd_auth
drwxr-xr-x 8 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-08 21:54 .evolution
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 1029996 2009-06-04 21:38 Firefox_wallpaper.png
drwx------ 4 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-12 09:41 .gconf
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-12 10:12 .gconfd
-rw-r----- 1 arturo arturo 0 2009-06-08 20:03 .gksu.lock
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .gnome
drwx------ 12 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-11 22:40 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:39 .gnome2_private
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 01:17 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 0 2009-05-22 23:30 .gtk-bookmarks
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 88 2009-05-12 14:40 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 1793 2009-06-12 09:40 .ICEauthority
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-06 21:40 .icons
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-02-02 18:06 install_flash_player_10_linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 3994294 2009-02-17 13:46 install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3994294 2009-02-17 13:46 install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz.1
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 35 2009-06-06 17:42 .lesshst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36916 2007-09-26 15:54 libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36270 2007-09-27 12:13 libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_i386.deb
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-22 23:34 .local
drwx------ 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .metacity
drwx------ 4 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-17 15:36 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .nautilus
drwx------ 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 02:30 .openoffice.org2
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 2163 2009-06-10 21:51 .recently-used
drwxrwx--- 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-18 20:08 .sane
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 0 2009-05-16 17:30 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-06 21:40 .themes
drwx------ 4 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-18 20:36 .thumbnails
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-10 20:54 .Trash
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .update-notifier
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 119 2009-06-12 09:40 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 67321 2009-06-12 10:25 .xsession-errors
arturo@freekbox:~$

NOTE:
I highlight the red but they are other in purple as well do you have to know those in purple as well?
thank you

 

Please do this now:

Code:

cd /home/arturo
tar xfz install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
ls -la

What's the output of the last command now?

 

these is the new outo-put

arturo@freekbox:~$ cd /home/arturo
arturo@freekbox:~$ tar xfz install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
arturo@freekbox:~$ ls -la
total 9144
drwxr-xr-x 25 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-15 22:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-05-30 21:54 ..
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 03:36 .AbiSuite
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 1 2009-05-21 20:28 .airappinstall.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 1 2009-05-21 20:33 .airinstall.log
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-25 21:14 .aptitude
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 122 2009-06-12 10:31 .aspell.en.prepl
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 22 2009-06-12 10:31 .aspell.en.pws
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 6731 2009-06-12 10:34 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 220 2009-05-12 14:39 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 414 2009-05-12 14:39 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 2227 2009-05-12 14:39 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-18 19:38 .config
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 03:41 Desktop
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 26 2009-05-12 14:39 .dmrc
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 16 2009-05-12 14:39 .esd_auth
drwxr-xr-x 8 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-08 21:54 .evolution
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 1029996 2009-06-04 21:38 Firefox_wallpaper.png
drwx------ 4 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-15 22:08 .gconf
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-15 22:09 .gconfd
-rw-r----- 1 arturo arturo 0 2009-06-08 20:03 .gksu.lock
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .gnome
drwx------ 12 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-12 10:34 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:39 .gnome2_private
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 01:17 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 0 2009-05-22 23:30 .gtk-bookmarks
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 88 2009-05-12 14:40 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 1793 2009-06-15 22:08 .ICEauthority
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-06 21:40 .icons
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-02-02 18:06 install_flash_player_10_linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 3994294 2009-02-17 13:46 install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3994294 2009-02-17 13:46 install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz.1
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 35 2009-06-06 17:42 .lesshst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36916 2007-09-26 15:54 libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36270 2007-09-27 12:13 libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_i386.deb
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-22 23:34 .local
drwx------ 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .metacity
drwx------ 4 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-17 15:36 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .nautilus
drwx------ 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-07 02:30 .openoffice.org2
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 2163 2009-06-10 21:51 .recently-used
drwxrwx--- 3 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-18 20:08 .sane
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 0 2009-05-16 17:30 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-06 21:40 .themes
drwx------ 4 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-18 20:36 .thumbnails
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-10 20:54 .Trash
drwx------ 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-05-12 14:40 .update-notifier
-rw------- 1 arturo arturo 119 2009-06-15 22:08 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 arturo arturo 71312 2009-06-15 22:10 .xsession-errors
arturo@freekbox:~$

NOTE;

It looks to me the same the one before, right?

 

Now do this:

Code:

cd /home/arturo/install_flash_player_10_linux
ls -la

What's the output?

 

here we go, now!

arturo@freekbox:~$ cd /home/arturo/install_flash_player_10_linux
arturo@freekbox:~/install_flash_player_10_linux$ ls -la
total 9944
drwxr-xr-x 2 arturo arturo 4096 2009-02-02 18:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 arturo arturo 4096 2009-06-19 22:31 ..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 arturo arturo 21701 2009-02-02 18:06 flashplayer-installer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 arturo arturo 10131640 2009-02-02 18:06 libflashplayer.so
arturo@freekbox:~/install_flash_player_10_linux$


is these good news fo me?
thank you for youre tutorial by the way

 

Do this to install Flash:

Code:

cd /home/arturo/install_flash_player_10_linux
./flashplayer-installer