Install the flash player

If you do not want to use google chrome, but view flash videos nevertheless, here is a way to install the Flash Player Plugin on Linux:

• open a console and enter

mkdir .mozilla/plugins

• Find out if you have a 32bit or 64bit system

uname -a

• Find out your distribution
• know that downloading .tar.gz files will work on every distribution and .rpm files should only be downloaded for rpm-based distributions
• Download the FlAsh PLayer from http://www.adobe.com
• unpack the file

cd
tar xvzf Downloads/install_flash_player_11_linux_i386.tar.gz 

• copy libflashplayer.so to .mozilla/plugins

cp libflashplayer.so .mozilla/plugins/

• restart your browser
• check your installation with http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

See also

• http://www.jamesward.com/2010/09/15/install-flash-player-on-64-bit-linux/