please tie my shoelaces, java plugins, on feisty

[fleamailman]

hi, how does one navigate

here is my target
/home/fleamailman/my plugins

here are my downloads

flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm

install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

or am I complately off trace, and should I be downloading something else

[Snowhog]

Re: please tie my shoelaces, java plugins, on feisty

Navigate? Can you clarify that?

The flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm is not a Debian based package (which Ubuntu/Kubuntu et al) is based on. The .rpm indicates this is a Red Hat Linux package. It can not be installed directly. It can be converted to a Debian based package for installation, but I can't tell you the specifics. You can search the Forum though, as I've seen posts dealing with this issue.

[fleamailman]

Re: please tie my shoelaces, java plugins, on feisty

thanks for the feedback, the background is that I couldn't get youtube streams to play and I was linked instead to the java download site for linux, but on that page there are two downloadables so not knowing what was right I just got both, and then could not figure why what they suggest on the didn't work, my post then.

Now, I have the java OK, but not by installing either of the packs mentioned, just I installed firefox and firefox java with adapt.

eitherway, thanks for the reply and telling me about rpm being redhat

[Detonate]

Re: please tie my shoelaces, java plugins, on feisty

It is best to always install packages using you Adept package manager or apt-get or aptitude if the package is available from the repositories. In this case the package you are looking for is named flashplugin-nonfree. If you have all of your repositories active and update the listings you should be able to find it in the Adept GUI with a search. Or enter at the CLI:
sudo aptitude update

Then:

sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree