I need help working basic command line stuff. Totally new

matt@Sisco:~/Desktop$ ls
install_flash_player_9_linux
matt@Sisco:~/Desktop$ cd /install_flash_player_9_linux
bash: cd: /install_flash_player_9_linux: No such file or directory

Hello matt..
Presuming you are using ubuntu 7.10,
Due to a bug#173890 it is not possible to install the flash player from synaptic package manager. A new package can be obtained from :

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10761023/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb

(click on this link and select save to disk or a similar option, when the file downloads double click the file and flash player installs itself.. (since its a .deb file))

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

"matt@Sisco:~/Desktop$ cd /install_flash_player_9_linux
bash: cd: /install_flash_player_9_linux: No such file or directory"

There is no such file or directory because you were searching in the root directory( / ) and the ls command print the list of the file in your home directory( ~ ).

if you type cd install_flash_player_9_linux

or

cd ./install_flash_player_9_linux

you can enter in the directory.

/ means root directory if you put at the beginning of the path.( like: cd /usr/local )
. means current directory(home in your case)

For a simple how-to see the link below
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal?action=show&redirect=BasicCommands

sorry, i was wrong, you were in your Desktop and so the ls command printed the file in your Desktop

Thanks for the help. Guys. There might be more than one way to do it I suppose. The way that worked for me is that I typed it in the long way. cd ~/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux and that brought me to the directory. But I will try the cd./filename next time to see if that works. Thanks a bunch.

I didn't get a chance to test the automatic flash-plugin-nonfree
because I figured out how to install it from the terminal in a tar(?)
file or is it taz I forget, I'm pretty new. But thanks for the help.