./flashplayer-installer

[Alex Dean]

Patrick C wrote:
> Don't bother with the installer. Just extract the tarball 
> <http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz> 
> (flash 9 linked, in case that's not what you were installing or if you 
> were using a different file): tar -xzvf 
> install_flashlalalablahblah.tar.gz, cd flashblahblahblah, and then sudo 
> cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and you'll be good to go.
> 

There are a few extra steps to this.

* You might be missing some underlying libraries.  I needed gsfonts-x11 
(I use Ubuntu).
* Next, in addition to copying libflashplayer.so into 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, you also need to put flashplayer.xpt into 
/usr/lib/mozilla/components.