This is how to install Adobe Flash Plugin for Firefox:
- Go to this page and select the option .tar.gz for other Linux. Download the file.
- Unpack the plugin tar.gz and copy the files to the appropriate location.
- Save the plugin tar.gz locally and note the location the file was saved to.
- Launch terminal and change directories to the location the file was saved to.
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Unpack the tar.gz file. Once unpacked you will see the following:
- libflashplayer.so
- /usr
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Identify the location of the browser plugins directory, based on your Linux distribution and Firefox version.(Usually it is
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
)
For ubuntu 14.04 path is :/usr/lib/firefox/browser/plugins
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Copy
libflashplayer.so
to the appropriate browser plugins directory. At the prompt type:sudo cp libflashplayer.so <BrowserPluginsLocation>
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Copy the Flash Player Local Settings configurations files to the /usr directory. At the prompt type:
sudo cp -r usr/* /usr
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Now restart your browser.