I keep mine in "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins" (actually symlinks). The flash rpm that is available from
http://macromedia.mplug.org/ installs them in /usr/lib/flash-plugin so I did "ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so".
Code:
#rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-6.0.79-1
#rpm -ql flash-plugin
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/LICENSE
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/show-license
#ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
total 40
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Nov 12 12:39 flashplayer.xpt -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/flashplayer.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Nov 12 12:38 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 65 Nov 9 17:27 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/latest/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36228 May 22 19:44 mplayerplug-in.so