Install Flash Player 9 in Ubuntu
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Install Flash Player 9 in Ubuntu
Preparing your system
First you need to install alien to convert .rpm to .deb package you can check here for complete details
First you need to download the .rpm file from here
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm
Now you have flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm package convert this to .deb using the following command
sudo alien -k flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm
Outputlooks like below
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package flash-plugin: postinst prerm
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
flash-plugin_9.0.31.0-release-1_i386.deb generated
Now you need to install this .deb package using the following command
sudo dpkg -i flash-plugin_9.0.31.0-release-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package flash-plugin.
(Reading database ... 174973 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flash-plugin (from flash-plugin_9.0.31.0-release-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flash-plugin (9.0.31.0-release-1) ...
This will complete the installation
Test Flash Player 9 Plugin
To check if Flash Player 9 is recognized by Firefox or not, open your Firefox and type in about:plugins.
I’m sure you don’t need to follow all those steps to install; you just need to unpack the .tar.gz and install via the terminal. Very easy.
You can also use Automatix.
Hi,
Did exactly what you said. W/ “about:plugins” I get ” No plugins installed” What gives? I even restarted machine and same response.
I also needed to do:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
Do I need “Flash!”? – not if it applies to advertisements that pop-up from nowhere and scrall across my screen…and No! if they keep telling me I need to. No I don’t and haven’t noticed missing anything. Flash! (IMHO) is a shoerthand for lazy advertisers…instead of giving us something of value they think a flashy (oops) cartoon will do. There is some stupid ad with a guy being run-over by a bus – what darn-fool thinks this will Sell —?(I dunno what – and if possible, I’d buy the competition’s product.)
Is Flash! used in games? – that might be it…since I don’t play games, but I think it’s fairly common on web-advertisements…..getting in the way of the work in hand. Creating cartoons the easy way may help to while away winter evenings, but to my mind there are better things to be doing.
You might also want to point out for the newbie that Alien is not in the default installation of Ubuntu and you can use Symantic or apt-get install alien to get it.
Hi
I used the same procedure to install flash player 10
It worked
Thank you very much.
Guys, i went the site which u mentioned to downlaod,
there is an option to select the file type.
tar,rpm and deb.
i downloaded the deb format file using firefox. it ask to open that file using Ubuntu application instaler.
and it installed fine. 🙂
Thanks a million, this was useful!
404 not found is all I get.
Hey,
Very helpful. Thanks for the post. Did work well.