Flash player, useful for watching videos online, can be downloaded and installed as follows, on Ubuntu Karmic.
1. Download the plugin from here.
2. Save the file. I saved it in my 'Setup_Files' directory.
3. Open the terminal, and cd to the directory where you have saved your file.
varsha@varsha-laptop:~$ cd /home/varsha/Setup_Files
4. Uncompress the file.
varsha@varsha-laptop:~/Setup_Files$ sudo tar -xzf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
5. Copy the extracted file to the 'Mozilla plugins' directory.
varsha@varsha-laptop:~/Setup_Files$ sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
6. Delete the tar.gz and the extracted file, if you want to, using the rm command.
varsha@varsha-laptop:~/Setup_Files$ rm libflashplayer.so
1. Download the plugin from here.
2. Save the file. I saved it in my 'Setup_Files' directory.
3. Open the terminal, and cd to the directory where you have saved your file.
varsha@varsha-laptop:~$ cd /home/varsha/Setup_Files
4. Uncompress the file.
varsha@varsha-laptop:~/Setup_Files$ sudo tar -xzf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
5. Copy the extracted file to the 'Mozilla plugins' directory.
varsha@varsha-laptop:~/Setup_Files$ sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
6. Delete the tar.gz and the extracted file, if you want to, using the rm command.
varsha@varsha-laptop:~/Setup_Files$ rm libflashplayer.so
For 32-bit Fedora 11 & 12 users, first go to http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp9 and click Download the Linux debugger and standalone players (TAR.GZ, 9.36 MB).
ReplyDelete1. Download the linux debugger version (tar.gz)
2. Extract,
tar -zxf flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz
3. Go to flash_player_9_linux_dev/plugin/debugger and extract,
tar -zxf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
4. Copy the libflashplayer.so file to /home/netlab/.mozilla/plugins/