Hi Derek, On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 07:07:28PM -0700, Derek wrote: > Hey > > I looked about the forums, and couldn't find an answer to this so I'm just > gonna spit out what i'm having trouble with. > > I just freshly installed OpenSolaris, and I'm not the most skilled at UNIX > machines, (I have learned Ubuntu Linux enough to run it with little trouble) > but I have already hit a road block. While attempting install flash player, > I have discovered that I do not have permission to copy the two needed files > to the firefox plugin folder. I attempted to log as root, and after some > reading found out I really can't do that without jumping through some hoops, > and now have to just accept that I do not know how to convince my computer > that I own it, so it will allow me to copy some files.
Probably step 3 below, from some instructions that I wrote, will help you out. 1. Go to a video on youtube, like perhaps the one with the folks skiing down the escalator at the London tube station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFqQOlYE4EE 2. You'll get a "Get the latest Flash player" link since OpenSolaris 2008.05 doesn't ship with the Flash plugin. Click on this, and select the "Solaris x86" link, and save the "flash_player_9_solaris_x86.bz2" file. It will likely be saved in your top-level Desktop/ directory 3. % cd Desktop % su <enter your root password> # bzip2 -dc flash_player_9_solaris_x86.tar.bz2 | tar xf - # cd flash_player_9_solaris_r124_x86 # cp * /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ 4. Restart your browser and re-visit your youtube link. It should work now.
