How To Install Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Install Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu 18

Adobe Flash player is important plugin that allows our web browsers to play multimedia contents like audio and videos streaming, flash based games and other rich media stuff. Adobe Flash player is supported by different web browsers like IE ( Internet Explorer) , Chrome, Firefox , Safari and Opera and can be installed on different operating system like Windows , Linux/ UNIX and Mac OS X and Android.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple. I will show you through the step by step installation adobe flash player on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver.

Install Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu

Step 1. First of all make sure that all packages are up to date.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Installing Adobe Flash on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

First, enable this repository before attempting to install flash plugin:

add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"

After enabling the partner’s repository, run the commands to install Adobe flash plugin:

apt update
apt install adobe-flashplugin browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash

Once installing, restart Firefox or any other web browser before using the flash plugin. To make some changes to the plugin, click the Activities from the top left corner, then on the Activities Overview, search for Flash Plugin.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed adobe flash player. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing adobe flash player on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Adobe web site.

How To Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on CentOS

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on CentOS

Adobe Flash Player are very useful for watching videos in web browser online. Without flash player most of the videos will not play in your browser. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. Follow guide how to install the latest version of adobe flash player 11.2 on your CentOS  using Adobe’s own YUM repository.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install of Adobe Flash Player on your CentOS server.

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on CentOS

Step 1. Install Adobe YUM Repository RPM package.

First add the following Adobe repository for Flash Player based on your CentOS system:

## Adobe Repository 32-bit x86 ##
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
 
## Adobe Repository 64-bit x86_64 ##
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Step 2. Update Repositories.

Next, we need to run the following command to update the Adobe’s own YUM repository to install Adobe Flash Player latest version:

 yum check-update

Step 3. Start to install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 and dependency packages using yum command.

Now run the following command to install latest version of Flash Plugin on your Linux system:

 yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

Step 4. Verify that the Flash Player Plugin is working, issue the following command.

[root@wpcademy~]# rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-plugin-11.2.202.425-release.x86_64

That’s all for now, enjoy playing games and watching streaming videos on your browser using Flash Player on systems.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Adobe Flash Player. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Adobe Flash Player on CentOS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Adobe web site.