Adding the Flash Player Plugin
Macromedia Flash Player is the high performance, light-weight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones and devices. Installed on over 500 million internet-connected desktops and mobile devices, Flash Player is the backbone of the Flash Platform and enables organizations and individuals to build and deliver great digital experiences to their end users.
Requirements
Doing the work
Installing Flash
The Flash plugin is not included by default, to use Flash you first have to Install it:
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Now we need to install the Adobe repository for flash. If this command fails, feel free to go to the adobe website and look for the rpm that installs the yum repository. Run:
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm'
- Provide the root password when prompted
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Install the flash plugin using yum:
su -c 'yum install flash-plugin'
- Provide the root password when prompted
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Once that is done the installation of the Flash Player Plugin is complete.
x86_64 Support
To be able to use the 32bit plugin with x86_64 firefox, you must install the nspluginwrapper.i386 package to enable the 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin in x86_64 Firefox and the pulseaudio-libs.i386 packages to enable sound from the plugin.-
Install flash-plugin as shown above.
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Install the nspluginwrapper.i386, nspluginwrapper.x86_64 and pulseaudio-libs.i386:
su -c "yum -y install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} pulseaudio-libs.i386 libcurl.{i386,x86_64}" -
Run
mozilla-plugin-configto register the flash plugin. (NOTE: This step is not always necessary.)su -c 'mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v'
How to test
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Close all instances of Firefox.
- Open 'about:plugins' and check if the plugin is loaded.
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Open Firefox and proceed to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/, on that page you should see advertisement for flash that states Installation Complete in the Macromedia Flash Player section. If you do your Flash Player is Installed properly.
Troubleshooting Information
If you previously had Flash 9 and upgraded to Flash 10 you must do the following:
- Open a terminal
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su -c "yum remove libflashsupport"
- At the password prompt, enter the password for root.
- At the Y/N prompt press "y", then press enter.
If you are having issues with Flash 10 please take a look at the following:
If none of the above solutions work for you with Flash 10 do the following:
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We must first remove Flash 10, by doing the following:
su -c 'yum remove flash-plugin'
- Press Enter, provide the root password when prompted.
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Install the Flash 9 plugin, by doing the following:
su -c 'rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm'
- Press Enter, provide the root password when prompted.
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Next re-install libflashsupport, by doing the following:
su -c 'yum install libflashsupport'
- Press Enter, provide the root password when prompted.
- Close all instances of firefox.
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Make a backup copy of your yum.conf, by doing the following:
su -c 'cp /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.bak'
- In your favorite text editor open the file /etc/yum.conf.
- Edit the line exclude= to read exclude=flash-plugin, if there are other exclude rules already present, just add the flash-plugin after the last package excluded as in this example: exclude=kernel flash-plugin.
- Once done editing the file, save the changes you just made.
- Open Firefox and proceed to http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/, on that page you should see advertisement for flash that states Installation Complete in the Macromedia Flash Player section. If you do your Flash Player is Installed properly.
Read Red Hat Bugzilla #184028 for more information about this problem.
More Information
Disclaimer
We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net.
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