How to install Flash player on Mandriva

First thing you should do is to download the .tar.gz file of the latest version of Flash player.
Get it from Adobe official website.

Download it at your home directory

next change to root

su -

enter the password for root

cd /home/[your_user]

tar xvzf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

(or any other name the downloaded file could have)

cd install_flash_player_9_linux

./flashplayer-installer

You will see something like this:

Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved.

Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux

Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.

You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as the “root” user.
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed system-wide.

Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/

To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.

To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.

NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue…

Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, SeaMonkey,
or Firefox browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/lib/mozilla
dir= /usr/lib/mozilla

WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.

If after entering /usr/lib/mozilla you get the above Warning, you should enter this other path.

Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, SeaMonkey,
or Firefox browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3 <—-
dir= /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3

In my case is /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3 in your case could be another version, be sure the directory exists.

———– Install Action Summary ———–

Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in the following directory:

Browser installation directory = /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3

Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y <—-

Installation complete.

That is all, you have now flash installed, (restart your firefox)