Help install Adobe® Flash® Player

Don Graham · 06-09-2014, 08:58 PM

Will someone please tell me how to install Adobe® Flash® Player using my terminal.

maples · 06-09-2014, 09:04 PM

Google for "[your distro] flash player package"

frankbell · 06-09-2014, 09:13 PM

You can't get more command line than this:

download the *.tar.gz from the Adobe website,
decompress the file (tar -xvf [filename]},
change directory to the decompressed archive, and then,
as root, copy the file libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (for Firefox) or the appropriate plugins directory (for other browsers).

That is the one method of installing flashplayer that has never failed me.

Germany_chris · 06-10-2014, 02:34 AM

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Does this not work?

SandsOfArrakis · 06-10-2014, 02:43 AM

Isn't flashplayer listed in your package manager? Mint has it in it's repos. My guess would be Ubuntu has it as well.

purple52 · 06-10-2014, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Don Graham

Will someone please tell me how to install Adobe® Flash® Player using my terminal.

Try this:
1. Open a terminal window.
2. Type in the following commands then hit Enter after each.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer