Installing Flash Player on Knoppix 3.7

So here I was running Knoppix 3.7 and trying to determine if White Castle has Kids Meals. (They do not at store #9).

I go to http://www.whitecastle.com only to be hit by an unfriendly message about
If you're One of Ours, then you'll need Flash 6.

Okay, I'll play along.
I go to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ and download the Flash Player 7 for Mozilla 1.2
The browser offers a choice to open with "ark", so I let it.
It unpacks the stuff into /home/knoppix, making a /home/knoppix/install_flash_player_7_linux subdirectory.
This actually works since the files needed are in the subdirectory knoppix@ttyp3[~]$ export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/knoppix/install_flash_player_7_linux/ knoppix@ttyp3[~]$ mozilla

The first time I did this, I make two subdirectories called components and plugins, and directed the installer to put them there. The adobe/macromedia files ended up in plugs, so I pointed MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH there.

So I figured I would document the steps...

The following documents that, weirdly, the install procedure found the /home/knoppix/.mozilla directory and installed the components, and it all worked without the MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH step.

Hmm, have to try it right after a fresh Knoppix boot.
Here are the instructions anyway...

First make two directories, so the installer thinks the $HOME directory is actually the mozilla directory and plop the nice files in the directories :-) knoppix@ttyp3[knoppix]$ cd install_flash_player_7_linux/ knoppix@ttyp3[install_flash_player_7_linux]$ mkdir $HOME/components $HOME/plugins knoppix@ttyp3[install_flash_player_7_linux]$ ./ flashplayer-installer libflashplayer.so knoppix@ttyp3[install_flash_player_7_linux]$ ./flashplayer-installer Copyright(C) 2002-2003 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux 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.
So I press ENTER NOTE: Macromedia Flash Player requires two font packages to be installed, gsfonts and gsfonts-x11. Press ENTER to continue...
So I press ENTER again... NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running. Press ENTER to continue...
So I press ENTER yet again... Here's where different stuff started to happen. And here it is:... ----------- Install Action Summary ----------- Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed in the following directory: Mozilla installation directory = /home/knoppix/.mozilla Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q):
Press y and ENTER... NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser. Installation complete. Perform another installation? (y/n):
Now press n and ENTER... Please log out of this session and log in for the changes to take effect. The Macromedia Flash Player installation is complete. knoppix@ttyp3[install_flash_player_7_linux]$
Now typing mozilla works!...