> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 05:29:26PM -0700, Mustafa
> wrote:
> 
> > I have downloaded the Flash Player archive file
> from Adobe's official
> > website where all the releases are, onto my desktop
> but I can not install
> > it, following a guide on a website, I received this
> output message on my
> > terminal window:
> > 
> > "bunzip2: Can't open input file
> flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar.bz2: No such file or
> directory." 
> > 
> > What could be the problem? What are the easiest
> steps in installing flash. Thanks in advance....
> 
> If you're running on OpenSolaris, then go to
> pkg.sun.com and sign up for a
> (free) key/cert pair for the OpenSolaris extra
> repository.  There are
> instructions there for what to do with them.  Once
> you've added the extra
> repo to your system's list of publishers, simply type
> "pkg install flash"
> and you should be good to go.

Bad idea! That is a version 9 player which has known security flaws. The 
version 10 player available from adobe is newer.

I don't know why that error is appearing, but can you try entering these 
commands after closing firefox:

su
(then enter the root password. You will then be running a root shell).
7z x flas
(press TAB key on keyboard to autocomplete filename, then ENTER).
tar -xvf fla
(press TAB again to autocomplete filename, then ENTER)
cd flash_player_r
(press TAB again, then ENTER)
cp *.so /usr/lib/firefox/plug
(press TAB again, then ENTER. Path should be completed as 
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins)

Then run firefox - flash should now be installed. Go to flash.com to check.

Cheers

Andrew.
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