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Installation instructions for Solaris x86


The following assumes that you have unpacked the archive flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar.bz2 into the top level of your user directory. Your user directory is referred to as $HOME.The Adobe Flash Player can be installed in two ways:A. Install Adobe Flash Player system-wide, making it available to all users of the computer-or-B. Install Adobe Flash Player in a user account, making it available only to that user.A. Installing Adobe Flash Player System-Wide:You will need root access to the computer to install Adobe Flash Player system-wide. Copy Adobe Flash Player (libflashplayer.so) into the Firefox/Mozilla plug-in directory (/usr/lib/firefox/plugins). Restart Firefox/Mozilla. Verify the installation by typing about:plugins in the location bar or by choosing Help > About Plugins. You should see Adobe Flash Player listed as "Shockwave Flash Player 10.0" To test Adobe Flash Player go to: http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayerversion B. Installing the Adobe Flash Player in a User Account:If you have not already used Firefox/Mozilla from the user account, launch Netscape/Mozilla and close it. This will create a preferences directory (/.mozilla) in your home directory. Create a directory named "plugins" in the Firefox/Mozilla preferences directory. If the mkdir command reports the error "cannot make directory: File exists", this means that the directory was already present and did not need to be created. Copy libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt into the plug-in directory. Restart Firefox/Mozilla Verify the installation by typing about:plugins in the location bar or by choosing Help > About Plugins. You should see Adobe Flash Player listed as "Shockwave Flash Player 10.0" To test Adobe Flash Player go to: http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayerversion Taken from: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/instructions/#section-4