My flash player seems not to be working.....

[Michael Havens]

I found a program called update-flashplugin so I ran it (as superuser) and 
received the message:

	automatic installation failed due to network problems or upstream changes

I found a resolution to this at
	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=949084

but wget 
http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

doesn't seem to work. I changed http to ftp and instead of just erroring out 
it times out. Can I ask for any suggestions?