Installing Flock and extensions in Ubuntu

I ran across a little post about people having issues installing flock on ubuntu 10.4 (and I'm sure other ubuntu iterations as well) and many more posts about people then having issues with installing flash plugin (for youtube and similar sites). I posted solutions where I could ~ even though, to be honest, about 5 minutes of quality time with google would have readily presented them with a solution.
Now, for those of you who are finding this post on google, I will save you some trouble. This is how you install flock on ubuntu as well as how you can fix the flash problem.


Place the file (currently flock-2.6.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2) that you can download from flock's website in any directory where you feel comfortable installing it. Then, right click on the file and choose "extract here".
Now, go to your desktop and right click a blank space and choose "create launcher". A window will then open up and you want to choose "Application" under the "Type" field, Name it what you want (e.g. "flock") then for the "command" field you want to click "browse" and navigate to the flock directory you just extracted and select "flock-browser" then click "open".
I extracted this in my home directory, so after doing this the "Command" field looks like this "/home/shirase/flock/flock-browser" then you can close that window. There will be a new icon on your desktop that launches flock; you can drag this to the bar at the top of your screen if you wish.
Doing things this way (the only way i know how) you will have an issue with installing addons, like flash. There is a way to get around this:
Open up a terminal and type "sudo nautilus" after you enter your password and nautilus (a file browser) opens, navigate to "usr/lib/firefox/plugins" and copy (for the flash plugin needed for youtube) "flashplugin-alternative.so" and then paste it into your flock addons directory. This will be wherever you installed flock to (in my example, i installed it to my home folder, so you would go to /home/shirase/flock/plugins on my computer). Of course, for different plugins the name will be different, but they will still be copy/pasted from and to the same location.
Hope this helps.
References:
Ubuntu community documentation on installing flock.
Blog post detailing how to get flash working in flock on linux.