<p>Flash plugin installer is in the repos. The download from flash website has failed on me before. <br>
Synaptic might be helpful for friend.<br>
locate flash might be helpful, too. </p>
<p>On Jul 24, 2011 10:51 PM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> A friend who is a very green Linux user installed Ubuntu (latest whatever<br>
> version) and went to install adobe flash. It required some command line-fu<br>> (which he didn't have) so he called me.<br>> <br>> -> I'm not an ubuntu person <-<br>> <br>> So I was trying to find out what file type he was trying to install so I<br>
> asked hi to open a terminal (he was in the normal X session) and run ls and<br>> tell me the name of the file he downloaded.<br>> <br>> It errored with "no command or file by than name". So I had him do a "pwd".<br>
> Same error. Ditto on "echo $PATH"<br>> <br>> W T F !!!!!<br>> <br>> the command he _needed_ to run was sudo apt-get flash..... but he couldn't<br>> recall if it was saved in the Downloads directory or the home directory. So<br>
> he tried to cd and it failed.<br>> <br>> Unfortunately, we were talking over the cell phones while I was in a busy<br>> and loud store so literally spelling out each letter of a working PATH<br>> "alpha bravo charlie" style was not going to happen.<br>
> <br>> Now I have been pretty harsh on messed up distro stupids in the past but I<br>> can't fathom how an install could complete and leave no working path<br>> variables set.<br>> <br>> Any ideas how during an install (that appeared to conclude correctly) Ubuntu<br>
> could have left off PATH? More importantly, ideas on how to NOT recreate<br>> this?<br>> <br>> -- <br>> -- <br>> James P. Kinney III<br>> <br>> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to<br>
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they<br>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.<br>> - *2011 Noam Chomsky<br>> <br>> <a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br>
> *<br></p>