[SOLVED] Installing flash player on Ubuntu 11.04

Pedroski · 09-23-2011, 11:56 PM

I seem to be going in circles here. I want to get flash player working on Ubuntu 11.04. I click on the apt 10 + of the adobe site and click download. Up comes Ubuntu software, tells me I need to use this with Ubuntu software installer, natty something. I if I look under applications, it tells me adobe flash player is installed, but it don't work. I think what is installed is the adobe installer.

Can someone give me a command line to install adobe flashplayer? I am used to yum
and that would just be yum install adobe-flash-player. If you have the adobe repo, that's all there is to it.

corp769 · 09-24-2011, 12:34 AM

Hello,

Are you running the 32 bit or 64 bit installation of Ubuntu? Only the 32 bit version of flash, as far as I know, is in the repos. If you have the 64 bit version, here are the commands:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

I also recommend that you install the ubuntu restricted extras from the software center.

Cheers,

Josh

Pedroski · 09-24-2011, 03:30 AM

Thank you very much! I have 64 bit installed, so I'll go for that.

And it worked like a dream!! If you're ever in Nanjing, I'll buy you a pint!

corp769 · 09-24-2011, 03:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pedroski

Thank you very much! I have 64 bit installed, so I'll go for that.

And it worked like a dream!! If you're ever in Nanjing, I'll buy you a pint!

No problem dude! If anything, it won't be a while before I'm close to China again. Maybe I might get a flight over when I take a small vacation over to Japan within the years to come

kasl33 · 09-24-2011, 05:06 PM

For next time, just do this:

Code:

apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree

Pedroski · 09-25-2011, 07:30 PM

Sorry kasl33, but that doesn't work. Maybe I need to add a repo??

kasl33 · 09-25-2011, 07:31 PM

Uncomment the nonfree repo in /etc/apt/sources. List

Pedroski · 09-25-2011, 09:59 PM

Ermm, there is no nofree repo. The word 'nonfree' is not in sources.list.

Can you post the repo url??

corp769 · 09-25-2011, 10:08 PM

After looking at the ubuntu site here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...dFormats/Flash - it looks like what I posted above is the non-free repo that is being talked about.

kasl33 · 09-25-2011, 10:09 PM

Oh maybe it's just the "extra" repo. I don't use Ubuntu or Debian so I can't post it.

You can probably just add nonfree to the end of your main apt line

cascade9 · 09-26-2011, 02:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769

Hello,

Are you running the 32 bit or 64 bit installation of Ubuntu? Only the 32 bit version of flash, as far as I know, is in the repos. If you have the 64 bit version, here are the commands:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

You can also use flash-aid-

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...don/flash-aid/

Quote:

Originally Posted by kasl33

Oh maybe it's just the "extra" repo. I don't use Ubuntu or Debian so I can't post it.

You can probably just add nonfree to the end of your main apt line

Not with ubuntu you cant.

Well, you can if you want but it wont get you flash, or any of the other stuff debian uses 'non-free' repos for.