- Launch Mozilla

- Launch Terminal

$ ps -ef | grep mozilla-bin

usr2 730 716 0 06:11:24 ? 0:13 /usr/sfw/bin/../lib/mozilla/m ozilla-bin -UILocale en-US -contentLocale US

usr2 753 752 0 06:36:39 pts/4 0:00 grep mozilla-bin

$ cd /usr/sfw/bin/../lib/mozilla/

$ pwd

/usr/sfw/lib/mozilla

- Uncompress flash_player_7_solaris_x86.tar.gz.

$ pwd

/home/usr2/Documents

$ ls

flash_player_7_solaris_x86_r53.tar.gz mynote~

mynote

$ gunzip flash_player_7_solaris_x86_r53.tar.gz

$ ls

flash_player_7_solaris_x86_r53.tar mynote~

mynote

$ ls

Desktop Documents jmf.log

$ cd Documents

$ ls

flash_player_7_solaris_x86_r53.tar mynote~

mynote

$ tar -zxvf flash_player_7_solaris_x86_r53.tar

tar: z: unknown function modifier

$ tar -xvf flash_player_7_solaris_x86_r53.tar

x install_flash_player_7_solaris, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks

x install_flash_player_7_solaris/flashplayer.xpt, 856 bytes, 2 tape blocks

x install_flash_player_7_solaris/libflashplayer.so, 2032848 bytes, 3971 tape blo cks

x install_flash_player_7_solaris/flashplayer-installer, 22476 bytes, 44 tape blo cks

x install_flash_player_7_solaris/README.htm, 11248 bytes, 22 tape blocks

x install_flash_player_7_solaris/Readme.txt, 5204 bytes, 11 tape blocks

$ ls

flash_player_7_solaris_x86_r53.tar mynote

install_flash_player_7_solaris mynote~

A directory called install_flash_player_7_solaris is created.

Navigate to this directory.

- From the command line, type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer.

$ pwd

/home/usr2/Documents/install_flash_player_7_solaris

$ ./flashplayer-installer

Copyright(C) 2002-2003 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved.

Macromedia Flash Player 7 for SOLARIS

Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed on this machine.

You are running the Macromedia Flash Player installer as a non-root user.

Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed in your home directory.

Support is available at http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/

To install Macromedia Flash Player 7 now, press ENTER.

To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.

NOTE: Macromedia Flash Player requires two font packages

to be installed, ttfonts and urw-fonts.

Press ENTER to continue...

NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

----------- Install Action Summary -----------

Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed in the following directory:

Mozilla installation directory = /home/usr2/.mozilla

Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q):q

$ su

Password:

# ls

flashplayer-installer libflashplayer.so Readme.txt

flashplayer.xpt README.htm

# cp flashplayer-installer /usr/sfw/lib/mozilla

# pwd

/home/usr2/Documents/install_flash_player_7_solaris

# cd /usr/sfw/bin/../lib/mozilla/

# pwd

/usr/sfw/lib/mozilla

# ls

chrome libmozz.so moz_patch_checker.dtksh

components libmsgbaseutil.so mozilla

debuginfo.sh libnspr4.so mozilla-bin

defaults libnss3.so mozilla-xremote-client

flashplayer-installer

# ./flashplayer-installer

Copyright(C) 2002-2003 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved.

Macromedia Flash Player 7 for SOLARIS

Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed on this machine.

You are running the Macromedia Flash Player installer as the "root" user.

Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed system-wide.

Support is available at http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/

To install Macromedia Flash Player 7 now, press ENTER.

To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.

NOTE: Macromedia Flash Player requires two font packages

to be installed, ttfonts and urw-fonts.

Press ENTER to continue...

NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue...

Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,

or Opera browser (e.g., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/sfw/bin/../lib/mozilla/

----------- Install Action Summary -----------

Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed in the following directory:

Browser installation directory = /usr/sfw/bin/../lib/mozilla/

Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y

cp: cannot access ./libflashplayer.so

cp: cannot access ./flashplayer.xpt

chmod: WARNING: can't access /usr/sfw/bin/../lib/mozilla//plugins/libflashplayer.so

chmod: WARNING: can't access /usr/sfw/bin/../lib/mozilla//plugins/flashplayer.xpt

Installation complete.

Perform another installation? (y/n):n

Please log out of this session and log in for the changes to take effect.

The Macromedia Flash Player installation is complete.

copy all files to plugin folder and up 1 directory

and try again.