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Howto install Flash 9 on Ubuntu Linux

January 18, 2007 – 7:03 pm

Here’s how to install Flash 9 on your Ubuntu Linux installation:

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
(you can use http://tinyurl.com/2a8zuc if you’re not cutting and pasting)

tar -xzf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

rm install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

cd install_flash_player_9_linux

./flashplayer-installer

Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved.

Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux

Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.

You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as a non-root user.
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in your home directory.

Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/

To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.

To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.

NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue…

———– Install Action Summary ———–

Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in the following directory:

Mozilla installation directory = /home/username/.mozilla

Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y

NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the
components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.

Installation complete.

Perform another installation? (y/n): n

Please log out of this session and log in for the changes to take effect.

The Adobe Flash Player installation is complete.

——–

You can use about:plugins from within Firefox to verify the install is complete.

Script available here (note: you’ll have to change it to executable chmod 755 flashinstall.sh)