[HOW TO] Install flash player in Linux

Here is a guide on how to install Adobe flash player to your Linux system.

First of all download the latest release of Adobe flash player.

You can find it here

Choose the .rpm version and click download.

Once the download is complete do the following:

Open a terminal and log in as root:

su -

then type the following to install the flash-plugin:

rpm -ivh flash-plugin-XXX.rpm
// (XXX is the release number)

Then(in order for flash-plugin to work) you need to locate the correct file and copy it to plugins.

Type the following:

locate libflashplayer.so

You should see something like this:

/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

Now change to ~/.mozilla/plugins directory and type as root:

cp /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /home/USER/.mozilla/pugins
// (USER is your username)

Finally, you need to change the ownership of the file so a non-root user to use it.

Type:

chown USER.USER libflashplayer.so
// (USER is your username)

Thats it! Restart your browser and type about:plugins to check if flash-plugin is installed.

If the above guide doen't work for you try the following:

Fedora

• 64bit

Open a terminal and type:

$ su -
$ yum install wget
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/
labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
$ mv /tmp/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

• 32bit

Open a terminal and type:

$ su -
$ rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release
/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
$ rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
$ yum update
$ yum install flash-plugin

Then restart your browser and type about:plugins to check if flash-plugin is installed.