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).
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1. Comment by andy
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 04:44 am GMT +8 at 4:44 am
thanks mate.. u rocks..
2. Comment by roger
Monday, August 9th, 2010 04:04 am GMT +8 at 4:04 am
doesn’t work! I absolutly cannot get ubuntu to install the flash player. I guess I’m just not smart enough to use linux
3. Comment by Martin English
Monday, August 9th, 2010 08:20 am GMT +8 at 8:20 am
hi Roger – without any further details, its a bit hard to help you. However, the original post is over 2 years old – could I suggest you try:
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz