Adobe Flash

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  For the general public

To install Adobe Flash

1. Make sure you are connected to the Internet

2. Open "Terminal Activity" . This is a pre-installed program found in the Activities taskbar at the bottom of your Home View. You may need to scroll through the Activities taskbar (at the bottom of your screen) to find the icon.

Another way to bring up the Linux command prompt is by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Neighborhood keys at the same time. The Neighborhood key is represented by a circle with 8 small dots .

3. get the flashplayer zipfile from Adobe using the wget command:

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

If you see an error message such as:

ERROR 404: not found

chances are you are either not connected to the Internet or you made a typo.

4. unpack the zip file:

tar xvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

* make the plugin directory for the browser

mkdir -p /home/olpc/.mozilla/plugins/

5. move the plugin into the browser plugins directory

mv install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so /home/olpc/.mozilla/plugins/

(Take note that there is a . in front of mozilla in the above commands.)

Alternate Install Instructions (if those above don't work)

At the command prompt, login as root

su -

Then type this to install the latest version of Adobe Flash

rpm -i http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm

To uninstall:

1. open the Terminal activity;

2. remove flashplayer by typing:

sudo yum remove flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release

or

sudo yum remove flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release

depending on the version you installed.

Advanced options

  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.