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The Adobe Flash Player is software for displaying multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe systems after its acquisition. Flash Player supports vector and raster graphics, 3D graphics, an embedded scripting language called Action Script and streaming of video and audio.

Adobe Flash Player is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. Designs, animation, and application user interfaces are deployed immediately across all browsers and platforms, attracting and engaging users with a rich Web experience.



This howto guide shows how to install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on RHEL 6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.2/6.1/6/5.8, Fedora 16/15/14/13/12, Ubuntu 12.04/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04, Linux Mint and Debian. Using Adobe’s own YUM repository for RHEL, CentOS, Fedora and apt-get for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian.

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 in RHEL, CentOS & Fedora

Step:1 Adding Adobe Flash Player Repository in RHEL, CentOS & Fedora

We using Adobe’s own YUM repository to install Adobe Flash Player in RHEL 6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.2/6.1/6/5.8, and Fedora 16/15/14/13/12. Run the following commands based on your OS architecture.

## Adobe Repository 32-bit x86 ##
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
 
## Adobe Repository 64-bit x86_64 ##
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Step 2: Updating the Repositories

We need to update the Adobe’s own YUM repository to install latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

yum check-update

Step 3: Installing Adobe Flash Player 11.2

Once the repository updated, you can execute the following command to install the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

## Run the below command on RHEL 6.2/6.1/6, CentOS 6.2/6.1/6 and Fedora 16/15/14/13/12 ##
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

## Run the below command on RHEL 5.8, and CentOS 5.8 ##
yum groupinstall "Sound and Video"
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper curl

Step 4: Verify the Flash Plugin on - Mozilla Firefox & Google Chrome

To verify the Flash plugin you much have Firefox and Chrome installed on your system. (If in case you don't have both browsers installed then follow below articles).

1. Install Firefox 11/10 On RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu and Linux Mint
2. Google Chrome 19.0.1084.9 (Dev) Released - Install Now

Once the Mozilla Firefox installed, Type the following text in the Firefox address bar.

about:plugins

Installing the plugin on Chrome

1. Create a Chrome plugin folder.

su -c 'mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins'

2. On 32-bit systems, create a symbolic link that tells Chrome how to find the 32-bit plugin.

su -c 'ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/libflashplayer.so'

3. On 64-bit systems, create a symbolic link that tells Chrome how to find the 64-bit plugin.

4. Run Mozilla Firefox once so that it creates /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so.

su -c 'ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so'

5. Exit all Chrome windows and restart Chrome and type the following text.

about:plugins

Important : You may have to re-run Chrome with the --enable-plugins command line switch to force Chrome to re-scan its plugins folder.

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 in Ubuntu, Linux Mint & Debian

We use apt-get command to install Adobe Flash Player in Ubuntu 12.04/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04, Linux Mint and Debian.

## For 32-Bit OS run the below command ##
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

## For 64-Bit OS run the below commands ##
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer