I got tired of all that symlink nonsense a long time ago, and made this function to do the update: [ -e "${HOME}/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so" ] && unlink ${HOME}/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so; nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so hth, Doug