I have just installed the newest version of OpenSolaris on my laptop, and now I’m going through the installation of the ‘be-or-not-to-be’ software, I have noticed that the OS 11 has a nice package manager, but I couldn’t find the flash player on it. Here you have a short and easy instructions on how to install flash player on your best of the best opensolaris box:
1. Go to any page where you expect flash contant (e.g www.youtube.com)
2. Click the ‘install flash player’, unfortunatelly it’s not that easy (the reason I’m writing this post) but you can download it on you desktop. If this for some reason doesn’t work (I got some security errors, just use wget to get the file – wget already installed 🙂 ).
3. Un-gzip it.
4. change to root on the console (su -)
5. copy the libflashplayer.so to the /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory
6. restart the firefox
7. Enjoy flash movies!! 🙂
Good luck!