Problem Unpacking Flash Plug-In

**Pleiades** · 12-18-2001, 08:18 PM

Just installed Slack 8 on my main desktop, and at last get to have a look at Galeon (it rocks). Went to a site with a bit of Flash, and had to download the Flash plug-in. Went to unpack it and got the following error:

$ gunzip flash_linux.tar.gz

gunzip: flash_linux.tar.gz: not in gzip format

$

tar -zxvf and bunzip2 both return similar errors. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I could copy it to a windows machine and unpack it there, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having this box boot into Linux.

**gorn** · 12-18-2001, 08:53 PM

tar xvf flash_linux.tar.gz

good luck

**pbharris** · 12-18-2001, 11:11 PM

if the tar -zxvf does not work try to redownload it.

**Pleiades** · 12-19-2001, 05:58 AM

tar xvf flash_linux.tar.gz

Bingo! Now I have to work out where to out the bloody thing !

**Feztaa** · 12-19-2001, 03:33 PM

I'm pretty sure the instructions included with it will work (for netscape). Look for that other thread I posted ("Anybody do flash?&quot

, somebody posted where to put those files for it to work with mozilla.

**civ1492** · 12-19-2001, 04:01 PM

put them into mozilla/plugins/
restart mozilla and all should work ..

**Pleiades** · 12-20-2001, 12:37 AM

Managed to work it out myself. It's amazing what you can find if you actually look

(Did someone say RTFM? ;p )

I've been using RH or Debian since I started with Linux, and with the recent change to Slack, some things aren't where I expected them to be. I find that there is something about Slackware that grabs me. Not sure what it is, but it's there.