Explanations in guides

[Vadim Peretokin]

Hi all,

I recently ran into this "issue" - a friend of mine was having trouble
getting Flash to work on her AMD64, so I pointed her her to the wiki page
related to this. To get flash, the guide says the following:

First download a copy of Flash, the most recent version can be found [image:
[WWW]] at the Flash website <http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer>. [image:
[WWW]] Direct link to latest version of
Flash<http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz>.


Once you have downloaded Flash, open a terminal and change to the directory
where you saved it. Extract the file and then move the Flash plug-in to your
Firefox plug-ins directory. If you download a later version remember to
change the file name as needed:

   -

   tar -zxf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
   sudo mv install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so
/usr/local/firefox32/plugins/

   -

And that works perfectly. The problem is, she thought she thought she had to
extract the file, and move it to the plugins herself, at which point she was
stuck since she didn't know where the plugins were. I just told her to do
those two commands in the terminal, and it worked. She didn't realize that
the instructions only explained the commands.

Would it be alright if I put the commands first, and then said "The file was
extracted and moved into the Firefox plug-ins directory."? I think that
would be much less confusing to a lot of people.
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