Adobe Flash

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  For the general public

Overview

Adobe Flash 9.x can be installed for both the Browse Activity and the Opera activity. This installation must be repeated after any Update.

Install the latest version of Adobe Flash, which plays a larger variety of Flash pages, by following the installation instructions.

To check which version of Adobe Flash is installed for your browser, take the Adobe Flash Browser Version Test. The version should show LNX not GSH.

Flash files are not played by default when a website is opened; you need to click on the flash window to load flash. The Click to Play can be disabled.

Installation

Browse Activity

1. Make sure you are connected to the Internet

2. Open the "Terminal Activity".

3. Retrieve and install latest working version (version 115) of Adobe Flash for the Browse Activity. Version 115 does not work with Opera on the XO.

su -l
wget flash90115.notlong.com
rpm -i flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm
exit

• http://flash90115.notlong.com is simply an alias for http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm for ease of typing.

4. Check to ensure that Flash is installed properly.

Browse to the Adobe Flash Browser Version Test.

The Version should be LNX not GSH.

To uninstall

1. open the Terminal activity;

2. remove flashplayer by typing:

su -l
yum remove flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release
exit

Advanced options

Opera

The latest version of Adobe Flash is not fully compatible with the Opera activity. To install Adobe Flash for Opera, follow the standard installation instructions for the Browse Activity replacing 115 in the file names with 48 to use the older version.

Click to Play

To avoid the Click to play prompt when playing flash in the browser, remove two files by typing the following in the Terminal:

su -l
cd /usr/share/activities/Web.activity
mkdir bak
mv agent-stylesheet.css bak
mv clickToView.xml  bak
exit

undo using Terminal:

su -l
cd /usr/share/activities/Web.activity/bak
cp agent-stylesheet.css ..
cp clickToView.xml ..
exit

  For Developers

Older versions of flash are available here:

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp9_archive.zip

Information about how to load other restricted formats is found here.

Gnash

Adobe Flash has been reported to conflict sometimes with Gnash; but this has not been reproduced. If you have a site that works for you with Adobe Flash installed but not with both Adobe and Gnash installed, please describe this in detail on the talk page here (after doublechecking the version of flash your browser seems to be running).