Shockwave Plugin

["Dale L . Morris" <dlm@well.com>]

Is there a debian package for the shockwave plugin? If not, how's the
best way to install it on my system? 
I've had a little success using alien -i [package name.rpm] to install
rpm packages but using the same for tar.gz packages doesn't seem to
work. I'll be reading the manual for alien, but in the meantime, is
there an easy, sound way to install the shockwave plugin? Or just
download it to /usr/local unzip and untar and ./configure/make/make
install?
thanks
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