Ubuntu Linux: How to Install Flash Player for firefox

Flash 9 is now available for Linux. I’ve tested it on Edgy with Beryl and it still works just fine.

cheers,

i am new to Ubuntu and am trying to install flashplugin i have typed the above 2 lines in, Ubuntu asks for a password I try to type my password in but it wont let me! Can anyone help please? thanks Mike

Where do i have to write this (I’m totally new to ubuntu). Can please someone tell me step by step or something… I tryed the terminal, looks like:

igi@igi:~$ $ apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
bash: $: command not found

Thank you ;D managed

ok, never mind… I got it.

@ Shaan: Maybe you don’t have the multiserver/universe enable, not sure if that would work, just an idea… I’m new too.

I’m new to xubuntu and I got flash,and itunes but I can’t hear the flash videos please help me!!!

== On ubuntu 8.04.1 64 bits ==

1) From the Adobe Web site download the latest linux flash player which is an RPM file.

For me, the file was:

“adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm”

Then using from the command line, where the file is:

1) alien -d adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

This will create a debian package file:

“adobe-release-i386_1.0-2_all.deb”

2) Install “classically” as any other .deb package.

I just used Dolphin, clicked on the .deb file, and installed using the package installer as proposed.

3) Exit Firefox.

4) Kill Firefox task:
ps -e |grep -i fire

18509 ? 00:01:13 firefox

kill 18509 (or the task id, given above)

That’s all, try Utube to test that flash works!

Oh my god. THANK YOU.

i get the following error

“E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem. ”

help?

Ok, I’m new to Ubuntu (I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS), and I want to install Flash Player. It successfully installed the Flash Plugin but when I try it on YouTube, MySpace, etc., it doesn’t work.

Please, can someone help me?

Apparently there is a bug with the flash plugin for Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10.

Thank you sooooo much Ste!!!
So easy and it works
remember to restart your browser after the install is complete

Finally, it works! Thanks..

ty Jack.

E: couldnt find package flashplugin-nonfree

It cant ever seem to find any thing, using jaunty
Can anyone help me figure this out.

http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/otherversions/

deb source of flash player 10

have fun
skymuss

This worked for opera9.64 (and firefox they reported), in AMD64 and ubuntu 9.04

Just download an unzip(I did this in the desktop, where ever this may be):
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar -xvzf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Copy the file:
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

and clean up everything:
rm libflashplayer.so
rm libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

i try to install flash player and no matter what i do it days

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.

What is a terminal (shell prompt) and how do I find it

thanks

“What is a terminal (shell prompt) and how do I find it”
terminal is the alternative to the graphic user interface, usually found under
Applications- Accessories. (can vary from OS to OS.)

but now my issue :)
have installed flashplayer 10.. have done :
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
and get message :
$Building dependency tree
$ Reading state information… Done
$ flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
$ 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Everything seems to say that I have the latest version installed, however, the kicker is that it still won’t work.

any ideas?

this is going to sound really really dumb, but in my case, I couldn’t get flash working no matter what I tried, because I never fully closed firefox when I installed flash – the downloads window was still open, so the changes would not apply! that’s sorted now, digging deeper to discover more of the linux secrets :-)

Oh my god. Thank you for this writeup.

i had problem with lunix before. but after i read and understand this page i solve the problem that my computer had.

on trying to install is giving error.Plz help…am a new user
Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock – open (13 Permission denied)

sorry…noob question… how can u all know the code like sudo apt-get and thing? did u all learn yourself or any experience or just randomly create the code? i still messed my terminal with these unfamiliar codes…..

FlashPlayer

When I try to open a flash file in Firefox nothing happens, when I try to open a flash file from my desktop I get “ GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error.” what should I do?

I have followed your instructions to sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree went well.

thanks

i recently installed Ubuntu Desktop 9.04 , you tube, etc were not working

the command worked

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

made everything very simple

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Even after typing this it never works help me

i have tried this allot but all that happens is this

stewart@stewart-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
[sudo] password for stewart:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package flashplugin-nonfree

help please

hi

The problem is I have already adobe flash and I have been writing this in the terminal
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

and it was no problem. but I can not still use youtube.
can somebody help me?

regards

i tried to install the .gib file of flash and i get this error after about 3 seconds Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libnspr4-dev i need help!!!!!!!!!

can someone please help! its saying 1 newly installed and 17 not upgraded :/ very confused

lateecia@lateecia:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
[sudo] password for lateecia:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Suggested packages:
konqueror-nsplugins libflashsupport msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/18.9kB of archives.
After this operation, 168kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages …
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database … 96171 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from …/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.152.0ubuntu0netbook1_lpia.deb) …
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.152.0ubuntu0netbook1) …
Downloading…
–02:25:01– http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/current/9/install_flash_player_9.tar.gz
=> `./install_flash_player_9.tar.gz’
Resolving download.macromedia.com… 96.7.99.191
Connecting to download.macromedia.com|96.7.99.191|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 3,057,910 (2.9M) [application/x-gzip]

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02:25:17 (187.83 KB/s) – `./install_flash_player_9.tar.gz’ saved [3057910/3057910]

Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

lateecia@lateecia:~$

Hey.

I am running Ubuntu Hardy Herron 8.04.
I did the code in the terminal and it looked like it worked fine, no errors, it said: “The Flash plugin is installed”.
I go on Youtube and it didn’t work, I tried myspace video, still didn’t work.
What should I do?

when ever i am watching videos on the internet and i put fullsreen mode the picture begins to freeze. can someone please help me