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Flash Player Plugin for Ubuntu 12.04
By wuovdj769, 11 years ago, In English

Hi everybody.
I'm having problem with installing Flash Player from Software Center. Downloaded tar.gz file. Don't know what to do next. Can anyone help ?

Thanks everybody. :)

Summary

Here are two ways to install Flash Player from tar.gz file.

1. Manual

  • Extract tar.gz file.
  • Copy libflashplayer.so to appropriate Plugins folder. (ex: for Mr. Firefox :) plugins folder is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/)

2. Using Terminal (Recommended)

  • Open terminal (shortcut: Control+Alt+T)
  • Enter folder where the archive is (using cd(change dir) ).
  • Extract archive. Use tar xvf <archivename>.tar.gz.
  • Copy libflashplayer.so to appropriate Plugins folder. Use sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ , press enter , enter admin password. Ready!

P.S. If you are not able to copy libflashplayer.so using Manual method use Terminal method.

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11 years ago, # |
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you can install it from terminal. press Ctrl-Alt-t to open terminal. Then write down this line

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

it will install all multimedia for mp3,mpeg etc. including flash player. Or follow the link

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To make it work in Firefox, you just have to copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/. It always works like a charm.

In more datail, unzip the tar.gz and get into the folder. Then execute: sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

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