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Even though I am computer illiterate I will try thank you....

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Adam [mailto:thomas.adam22 at gmail.com] 
To: TAG <tag at lists.linuxgazette.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:08 PM
To: Hunt, Melissa
Cc: The Answer Gang
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Hello --

2008/10/29 Hunt, Melissa <mhunt at dewberry.com>:
> Im trying to download adobe flash player to my ausus eee 2G
>
> I downloaded it to my user file. Its just sitting there, doesn't seem
> like it needs to be unzipped but im not sure.

So I had to look this up (you're still not telling me what I need to
know -- but we'll get to that).  I assume you ended up here at some
point:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Sho
ckwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux

That being the case, which format did you select?   Xandros uses deb
files, although I suspect selecting any one of the deb formats from
the list Adobe gives you would be silly -- the meta data for the
package probably won't match up.  So... that leaves the generic
.tar.gz format.  I suggest you try downloading that.

When you've done that you can then open a terminal up and type:

``
cd ~/Desktop
tar xzvf ./file.tar.gz
''

There's several things I've assumed here, not least of all that the
resultant file you've downloaded is indeed in "$HOME/Desktop" and that
the file is really called "file.tar.gz".  Some level of common sense
on your part is needed here.

Then (apparently) you can then:

``
cd ./install_flash_player_10_linux && sudo ./flashplayer-installer
''

You will then need to close and reopen firefox, should the above work.

-- Thomas Adam