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Adobe's Flash Player is closed source software. If you run the commands on this page, only a script is installed which facilitates the installation of the actual plugin.
 
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     pushd "${TEMP_DIR}"
 
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     wget "${URL}"
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== Usage ==
 
== Usage ==

Revision as of 15:58, 14 June 2014

Adobe's Flash Player is closed source software. If you run the commands on this page, only a script is installed which facilitates the installation of the actual plugin.

LFScript can find this software under the name flash-plugin.

Dependencies

  • wget

You might also want to install firefox...

Installation

As the root user:

cat > /usr/sbin/install-flash-plugin << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
# This script downloads and installs Adobe Flash Player.
set -e

getFlashPlayer() {
    local ARCH="$(uname -m)"
    case $(uname -m) in
        i?86) local ARCH="i386" ;;
    esac

    local FILENAME="install_flash_player_11_linux.${ARCH}.tar.gz"
    local URL="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.1.102.55/${FILENAME}"

    local TEMP_DIR="$(mktemp -d)"
    pushd "${TEMP_DIR}"

    /* -#/* -#wget "${URL}"
#- */#- */
    tar xf "${FILENAME}"

    cp -vR usr /
    mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
    cp -v libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

    popd
    rm -rf "${TMP_DIR}"

    echo "Done!"
}

getFlashPlayer
EOF

As the root user:

chmod 755 /usr/sbin/install-flash-plugin

Usage

After you have booted your OS for the first time, run the following command as root to install the flash plugin:

install-flash-plugin