Flex Builder 3 / Linux and flashplayer selection

Hi all,
I'm a Flex/AS/Eclipse newbie, and I'm learning all these ones at once in these days.
I'm running Flex Builder 3 with Eclipse 3.3.2 (Europa) in Linux.
Now I'm trying to write a simple project, I should have done something to my system so now I'm getting this error message when I try to compile:
| Flex Builder cannot locate the required version of Flash Player. You might need to install Flash Player 9 or reinstall Flex Builder.
| Do you want to try to run your application with the current version?
My question is: how can I select the flashplayer / plugin to use for a specific Flex project?
Many thanks in advance, best regards.

Hi, thanks for your answer.
It turned out the problem was related to the *standalone* flashplayer.
This is located in linux in:
FLEX_BUILDER_INSTALL_PREFIX/Player/linux
when I was clicking on the "Run" button Flex Builder was looking for a flashplayer standalone app, and was failing to find it.
What I had to do was to add the complete the flashplayer path to the PATH used by eclipse.
Now clicking on "Run" it compiles the application and launches the standalone player with the generated swf file.
Now I wonder if there is some way to select the flashplayer to launch, and if it is possible to configure eclipse to make it launch a browser or a custom script rather than execute that swf with the standalone player.
Thanks, regards.

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cdelashm wrote:
> I'm new to Flex, and I have to say that I'm enjoying it
quite a lot. I think
> the thing that really helps speed up development is good
tools. Flex Builder 3
> for Linux makes a good start at providing a very nice
development tool, but
> there are a couple of things I'd like to see different
with this tool.
>
> First off, please give me an update site to use to
install Flex Builder. I
> use Red Hat Developer Studio (soon to be JBoss Developer
Studio, Eclipse 3.2
> based), and I can't get FB 3 Alpha for Linux to install
into it. I have been
> successful with base Eclipse Europa and FB 3, but I'd
like to have my IDE tools
> in one frame. An update site would let me add FB 3 into
any Eclipse flavor I
> choose, as long as it supported the appropriate
components.
>
> Next, Design mode for FB 3 is a must. I am very
functional with the content
> assist features in the source editor (and they are
_quite_ good, I must say),
> but design view really helps me preview changes quickly
and rapidly test out UI
> designs. Much faster than writing and launching over and
over.
>
> Otherwise, great work, and please get out a new release
soon!
>
>
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