Adobe Flash

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To install Adobe Flash

1. Make sure you are connected to the Internet

2. Open the "Terminal" activity Activity-terminal.svg. 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 by using the right arrow icon at the bottom of your screen (Frame-scroll-right.gif) to find the Activity-terminal.svg icon.

3. At the command prompt, login as root by typing

su -

4. Then type this to install the latest working version (version 48) of Adobe Flash. Some sites suggest using the latest version #115, but 115 does not work with Opera on the XO. To install version 48 type the following:

rpm -i http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm

To uninstall:

1. open the Terminal activity;

2. remove flashplayer by typing:

su -
yum remove flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release

or

su -
yum remove flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release

depending on the version you installed.

Advanced options

To avoid the Click to play prompt when playing flash in the browser remove the two files:

/usr/share/activities/Web.activity/agent-stylesheet.css 
/usr/share/activities/Web.activity/clickToView.xml

using Terminal:

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

undo using Terminal:

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


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.