www.adobe.com/.../download.cgi\
ash

shut down the browsers and install from the gz package

Much appreciated, I had installed Gnash earlier but that was rather flakey

At the site it says that after downloading......../.In terminal,
navigate to the desktop and type.........

How does one navigate to desktop in terminal?

"cd Desktop"

the terminal window should open in your home directory.

of course that instruction is assuming you downloaded the file to
desktop.


I unpack the archive and install with the gui.

As some of you will have noticed I also use the GUI too it's an awful
lot easier and more intuitive.

If you save the file rather than automatically opening it =its
generally a lot easier and you've a backup too. I have Firefox set to
save in a Directory in my users account called Downloads. This helps
keep things tidy for me

no problem. the joy of lists like this and Ubuntu Forums is that there
is usually someone that has had and resolved the issues big and small.


For me there were some sites that were coded in such a way that only
macromedia flash would do...