OpenSolaris and Adobe

Adobe Flashplayer is very widely used throughout the web. To get it installed on OpenSolaris, Firefox tries to install it, but fails. So you can download a tarball from Adobe. Then what? Follow these instructions

$tar jxvf flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar.bz2

$cd flash_player_10_solaris_r32_18_x86/

Here you may need to create a folder. Without changing directories, do this

$ls ~/.mozilla

This will show you the directories in your Mozilla Firefox environment. If the folder plugins does not exist, create it now

$mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins

And then move the lib file into it.

(assuming you're still in the flash_player folder)

$mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

Restart Firefox and you should be set.