Personally I do not care, if I meet a page some silly plugins are needed, I leave it. Or start my WindowsXP were everything works well

But now I have installed Zenwalk 4.6.1. to a computer which I will give to the hands of three girls from 8 to 12 year old. I have observed what they do in a Windows computer. They are using MS Messenger to chat with their friends or surf to some page to play games residing there.

I tried to do what they did in my Zenwalk installation but at ones realized that Adobe Flash Player and Java Environment are lacking from my Firefox. Then I did some searching using those names as keywords and met some long and complicated discussions about the difficulties people had met while trying to get the plugins to work in Firefox. But those discussions were relatively old, so probably we live better times now with ZW 4.6.1.? Perhaps to install plugins to Firefox is so simple that every other Linux user than I already have those tricks in their head ready ::)

I did "netpkg java" and got a long list of operations to work seemingly successfully. Full of hope  I rebooted and started Firefox but the situation is the same as before

Sometimes when using Linux I have followed the Firefox's advice "Download a plugin here", but it has not worked. Perhaps it  is now that simple in Zenwalk?

they are both in zenwalk repositories. For java you need to install the jre package and for flash something with the name flashplugin or something related. I'm not sure in wich mirror they are, so, search in them

best regards 

Thank you for advice, but as much as I understand, "netpkg java" already installed jre:

I also did "netpkg search flashplugin", the result was that netpkg uppdated "search4files-0.1e-noarch-42.1.tgz" in my computer to "search4files-0.1e-noarch-48.1.tgz". What does this "search4files" do? Something the same as Beagle?

Then I realized the right method to find the Flash Player going through the repositories and at last installed "flash_plugin-9.0.31.0-i686-44.1.tgz" and should now be partly happy with my Firefox. I reboot and try again!

I found the repository http://users.zenwalk.org/packages but

"is corrupted" - sometimes when using netpkg I have met the same difficulty but later in the same repository not that problem

fossiili, I think you are confusing netpkg with apt-get or aptitude. There isn't any "netpkg install package_name" or "netpkg search package_name" (at least in 4.4.1). Netpkg searches by it self the packages related to the string you enter, so "netpkg package_name" should be enough. Thats why "netpkg search flashplugin" returned a package related to "search".
To install acroread:

or download to a location using firefox, go to where you donwloaded with thunar and right-click the package and hit install.

Yes, and with the names of yum, hum, ham 

Now both Flash player and Java plugins should be installed. I am glad to notice that those games in Internet using Flash player are working

But for some reason, Firefox does not find the Java-libraries installed.

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After some Googling I found advice:
1. go to the directory were Firefox is installed
2. make symlink to the directory were Java plugin is installed.

The only problem is that I can not find neither the directory mentioned in "1." nor the directory for "2."

I have been looking through /bin /usr /usr/bin etc. ....

try this as root.

this thread was really helpful!
i got my java workin now, thanks

Thank you! Only some modifications are needed, the working command is:
ln -s /usr/lib/jre1.6.0_01/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so  /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

for me its ln -s /usr/lib/jre1.5.0_08/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/plugins.

/usr/lib/firefox is a symlink to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3 (on my PC). That's way I posted in that shape.  But you figured it out