I'm having trouble installing Flash Player on this Linux computer?
I’m on a Linux compter in one of my college’s computer labs, it’s 64-bit and running Red Hat distribution. From http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ I tried both .tar.gz and .rpm.
When I unzipped the tar file I got a file called libflashplayer.so, and when I tried to open it I got an error that said "couldn’t display [path]/libflashplayer.so".
When I extracted the the .rpm, I got a folder with 2 folders inside, lib and share, and a bunch of files and folders within those. I found another file called libflashplayer.so, and it gave the same error.
Anyone know how to get it to work?
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Did any of those file that you uncompressed have any text files (.txt) or a file named README?
They have instructions for installing the software.
why did you ‘extract’ the .rpm?
it’s a package, the equivalent of setup.exe on windows.
if your goal is to install it, then install the damn thing; don’t examine it.