Here i will describe how to install .tar.gz.
First download the .tar.gz file. Go to http://www.adobe.com and click on the Get Adobe Flash Player button. Make sure you use a browser from your Linux desktop; if you use a Windows browser you will be redirected to the Windows version of the Flash Player 9. Provided you use a Linux browser, you will be redirected to the download page of the Linux version of the Flash Player 9. On the download page you will get a Flash Player .tar.gz file and download it to your computer (in my case I downloaded it to /home/tapos/Desktop).
Now open a terminal then go to the directory like this:
cd /home/tapos/Desktop ##replace this as your download directory
Then ..
tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux/
sudo ./flashplayer-installer
then the process is bellow.
You will be asked few questions. Just answer this. The red one’s is the answer. You may face one problem with installation directory of the Browser. Please check your usr/lib directory to get the correct installation path.
Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved.
Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.
You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as the “root” user.
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed system-wide.
Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/
To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.
To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C. <– <ENTER>
NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.
Press ENTER to continue… <– <ENTER>
Please enter the installation path of the Firefox, Netscape,
or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): <– /usr/lib/firefox
dir= /usr/lib/firefox
WARNING: An older version of the Adobe Flash Player has been detected in
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins.
The installer will overwrite this existing binary.
———– Install Action Summary ———–
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in the following directory:
Browser installation directory = /usr/lib/firefox
Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): <– y
Installation complete.
Perform another installation? (y/n): <– n
Please log out of this session and log in for the changes to take effect.
The Adobe Flash Player installation is complete.
Now check your installed plugins in firefox. Just open firefox and type about:plugins and check it. I have following view.
What is your experience??
lefty.crupps said
My experience, with Kubuntu, is visit a site that requires Flash, browsing with Firefox. It offers to install the missing plugin, and does so fine. Then, it works.
My other experience is to download that tar file (from the article) and untar it. Then, copy the .so file from whereever you untarred it, to the /home/username/.mozilla/plugins/ folder, and it works just fine that way also.
Tapos said
cool
Brook said
really cool, i had bad time searching for how to install flash player in ubuntu, here i found it easily…thnx
animesh said
Well didn’t work for me. Thanks for the beautiful article. but it seems Adobe keeps on updating its player so that it does not works with any old tutorial.
Companies like Adobe act like a stooge for Macroshaft.
/usr/lib/firefox directory was reported invalid byt he Adobe installer, even though I verified the presence of that directory. Besides, sudo ./flash…
didn’t ask for my password.
Steve said
Just click on the install icon from a site like youtube with ubuntu 8.04 and firefox and it installs without a hitch. I tried the manual download/tar install first and could not get past enter /usr/lib/firefox … installer didn’t like it.
Tapos said
@steve & animesh, u can use ur firefox path there. I have write my own “/usr/lib/firefox”, u may have ” /usr/lib/mozilla”. thats just need to change.
thanks
Tapos said
BTW few days ago, i have update my firefox to firefox beta 3. I have installed it in /opt/firefox folder. So i have use /opt/firefox for installation directory instead of /usr/lib/firefox and it worked fine.
Waleed said
Hi. I have firefox 3 but for installing i could not pass where it asked for directory any help pleas……………………!
team-cOn said
for all you guys out there using firefox 3.0 i had the same problem untill i realized that /lib/mozilla was not the folder enter this:
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0
it worked for me great no problem. Hope it does the same for yall
i386 said
hello guys, thanks for the info (team-cOn)!
you are right, i was getting an invalid directory error when i tried /lib/usr/firefox OR /lib/usr/mozilla.
but when I tried /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1 it worked!
good one mate!
Johns said
but when I tried it says – your architecture x86_64 is not supported.
wow, that means adobe flash can be only on 32bit machines?
Raj said
Nice… very helpful…. thank you
Arun kumar said
Really i am tired of installing Flash player in ubuntu using synaptic manager. But this installation steps really helped me to install Flash player. Quit simple and very useful.. Thanx to the guys who wrote this..
stewien said
okay, ich lese in diesem wie in anderen foren, ich versuche flash player auf meinem ibookg4 und dem betriebssystem ubuntu zu laden. ich schau mir eure idiotischen kommentare an. ich finde keinen einzigen brauchbaren. ich weiss nicht wie man yip/pack/uyop,tar,gmxc, runterlaedt, entpackt, yippt, verschiebt, auf dem terminal, verdichtet, verdampft oder sonstwie behandelt. Ich will nur diesen dreck benutzen nichts mehr, und niemand scheint faehig yu sein, das yu erklaweren> in menschlichen worten/// versteht ihr, nicht in diesem daemlichen technoslang.
Seid ihr wirklich alle so daemlich> mein computer ist viereckig, das ist die grundlage….
John.St said
Adobe now has a .deb version for 8.0.4 and later
Jake said
I used /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5 and it worked, however, I still can’t play videos with flashplayer 10. Flashplayer 9 works, but it is laggy and wont play smoothly.
clintthewookie said
Worked fine when I replaced the install_flash_player_9 with install_flash_player_10 and set the directory to /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5.
Thanks a billion!
jpicc said
when i went through the process no mater what i did i cot the error message”warning(file path) is not a directory. i tried over 30 file paths and got the same message. what should i do? i am using kubuntu version 7.04 and Firefox version 3.0.8 (yes i have tried with 3.0.8 in the directory path)
thanks for the help. this is the furthest i have gotten yet.
jpicc