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 the "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 by using the right arrow icon at the bottom of your screen () to find the icon.

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

To retreive and install Adobe Flash type the following:

su -l
wget flash90version.notlong.com
rpm -i flash-plugin-9.0.version.0-release.i386.rpm
exit

Where version is either 115 or 48

Note that http://flash9048.notlong.com is simply an alias for http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm for ease of typing.

Similarly, http://flash90115.notlong.com is an alias for http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm .

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-9.0.48.0-release
exit

or

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

depending on the version you installed.

Advanced options

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).