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Installing Adobe flash player on Ubuntu 7.10
By Martin English | January 31, 2008
A flash player is a must have plugin for browsers. Without it you cannot acess a lot of video sharing sites such as YouTube. By default, Ubuntu doesn’t come with a flash player because the Adobe flash player is proprietary. The solution is to manually install the flash player.
# get the flash player from the macromedia website (above) or by using wget # extract the tar file # run the installer - You will asked to close all the browser windows during this. # specify the firefox folder during installation
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
tar xvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux
./flashplayer-installer
/usr/lib/firefox
And that is it. Restart your browser and you can watch flash videos on Ubuntu! (This also shows why it may be better for your grandma to stick with Windows).
Topics: *nix, Code, Open Source, Productivity, TV / Video, Web / Web 2.0, software |
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