Install flashplayer
Ubuntu dapper drake
Adobe has now released flash player 9 for Linux so the flash 7 installer in both Dapper and Edgy no longer works.There are two methods for installing flash on Ubuntu, both complicated.
Method 1 - apt-get
- bring up a terminal
- "sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list"
- uncomment the line for dapper-backports
- close nano, saving the file
- "sudo apt-get update"
- "sudo apt-get install -t dapper-backports flashplugin-nonfree"
Method 2 - download the tar.gz file
Browse to http://www.adobe.com
click on download flash player (as of this date, in the Shortcuts box)
click the download now button (You have read the user agreement, right?)
save to disk. In Ubuntu Dapper, this will be /home/<your user name>/Desktop. Other systems may download to /home/<your user name> by default.
open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+t)
"cd Desktop" (on an Ubuntu box)
type tar -xvzf ins and then hit the tab key. The line then should look something like "tar -xvzf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz".
Hit enter. This should result in a series of filenames being typed on the screen as the package is extracted.
enter cd install_flash_player_9_linux
enter sudo ./flashplayer-installer
follow the prompts. When it asks what browser to install it for, select m or a
for the root install, the path for firefox is /usr/lib/firefox
you should now have flash installed on your freekbox. Open a browser and go to http://youtube.com to test it.