Comments on: Install Flash Player 9 in Ubuntu

By: Aneslin

Aneslin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:35:24 +0000

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.

By: Dr Kurian

Dr Kurian — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:56:05 +0000

Hi
I used the same procedure to install flash player 10
It worked
Thank you very much.

By: jj

jj — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:46:02 +0000

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.

By: harry

harry — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:40:57 +0000

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.

By: cm

cm — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:47:23 +0000

I also needed to do:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/

By: jj

jj — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:17:03 +0000

Hi,

Did exactly what you said. W/ “about:plugins” I get ” No plugins installed” What gives? I even restarted machine and same response.

By: Peter Gasston

Peter Gasston — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:28:06 +0000

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.