Flash Player 9 for Linux


Linux users have been waiting for a very very very very (1 million more very’s here) long time for Adobe to come up with Flash player 9 for Linux.  Until now, we Linux users are officially bound to Flash player 7 only, or are we?

If you’re up to it my dear Linux user, you can go ahead and try Flash Player 9 beta for Linux.  I tried it and it works fine.  Here’s how to set it up as a plugin for Firefox.

  1. Download Flash Player 9 for Linux here – http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html
  2. Extract the contents of the downloaded file
  3. Copy the libflashplayer.so to your ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory
  4. You may also want to copy libflashplayer.so to your /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ directory as well
  5. Restart Firefox.

Note that paths may vary on different flavors of Linux.  Let me know if you got it working.



November 3, 2006 · Posted in Technology  
    

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4 Responses to “Flash Player 9 for Linux”

  1. Binny V A on November 5th, 2006 12:48 am

    This is a beta version. Have anyone noticed any problems with it?

    I am not a big fan of flash anyway – Flash 7 is good enough for now – the only use I for flash is YouTube and Google Analytics. I will delay installing this upgrade until they release a stable version.

    Even though it may be a few years before they do that.

  2. sudhir on August 28th, 2007 1:29 pm

    Hi,

    I wanted to install flash player to my motorola E6 ROKR mobile. Can I do this? if yes, how do i go about with it?

    Please help :)

    regards
    Sudhir

  3. The Blogger on August 29th, 2007 10:36 am

    Hi Sudhir!

    I too have a Motorola E6 Motorokr but I haven’t tried installing flash 9 on it yet. As of how to do it, I suggest that you browse a website that requires flash 9 and see if Opera auto-installs it. Not sure if it’ll work though.

    Mike

  4. ELY on March 27th, 2008 11:28 pm

    For those who wants to install flash player on their cell phone. Dude what you need to have is Flash LITE it is also a free ware from adobe that is use for CP you can down load this to http://www.adobe.com. TC!

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