Flash Plugin

Adobe's Flash Player is closed source software. If you run the commands on this page, only a script is installed which facilitates the installation of the actual plugin.

flash-plugin

Dependencies

 * wget

You might also want to install ...

Installation
cat > /usr/sbin/install-flash-plugin << "EOF" set -e
 * 1) !/bin/sh
 * 2) This script downloads and installs Adobe Flash Player.

getFlashPlayer { local ARCH="$(uname -m)" case $(uname -m) in       i?86) local ARCH="i386" ;;    esac

local FILENAME="install_flash_player_11_linux.${ARCH}.tar.gz" local URL="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.1.102.55/${FILENAME}"

local TEMP_DIR="$(mktemp -d)" pushd "${TEMP_DIR}"

wget "${URL}" tar xf "${FILENAME}"

cp -vR usr / mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins cp -v libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

popd rm -rf "${TMP_DIR}"

echo "Done!" }

getFlashPlayer EOF

chmod 755 /usr/sbin/install-flash-plugin

Usage
After you have booted your OS for the first time, run the following command as root to install the flash plugin:

install-flash-plugin