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March 1, 2005
Installing the Flash Plugin for All Linux GUI Browsers
It is really easy to get the Macromedia Flash Plugin for Linux installed and working with all of your Linux web browsers. Here are the steps:
[NOTE: file & directory names will change with each version that is released]
[NOTE: paths listed are for Fedora Core; other distros may vary; substitute accordingly]
1. Download the Flash Player/plugin for Linux from Macromedia at http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash.
2. Extract the contents of the tarball just downloaded:
$ tar -zxf install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
3. Change into the directory created from extracting the tarball contents:
$ cd install_flash_player_7_linux
4. As root, copy the libflashplayer.so file to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ directory:
# cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
5. Open the Configure Konqueror... dialog at the bottom of Konqueror's Configure menu. Scroll to the bottom of the icon bar on the left side of the configuration dialog, and click on Plugins. Click on the Scan for New Plugins button. Click the Plugins tab and verify that the Flash Player plugin is now on the list.
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Lamont R. Peterson
Posted by lamontp at March 1, 2005 10:14 PM
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Does this have benefits over just installing an RPM from http://macromedia.mplug.org/?
Posted by: Doran Barton at March 14, 2005 12:23 AM
[ Ed. I'm not sure what happened to the response comment I had written before, but it's gone, so I'm re-responding to Doran's comment. ]
When I wrote this post, I had tried to get an RPM from there, but it didn't work for me on the release of Fedora Core that I was trying to install Flash on. It became available very shortly after that.
Today, I am using the mplug yum repository, which provides Fedora RPMs that work for me. I first installed FC5 (final) one day after it was released and the mplug package works great.
[ Ed. See my later post (2006/07/11) for notes regarding the mplug Flash package, including a small font related issue on FC5 and links to furher information on the future of Flash on Linux. ]
Posted by: Lamont R. Peterson at July 11, 2006 9:22 AM