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I realized the other day that the flashplugin-nonfree package appears to be broken. It’ll act like its installing but at the end, if you pay close attention, it’ll give an error about the md5sum not matching and give up. This applies to installing the package manually or via the browser notification itself. I wanted to post a temporary fix while we wait for the package to be updated.
Manually Install Adobe Flash
- Download the Flash for Linux archive
- Unpack the archive (/tmp perhaps)
- sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Once you’ve copied the file Flash should be functional. You may need to restart the browser if you run into performance problems. Also note that these same steps work for installing flash for the Epiphany browser (yes, even placing them in the firefox folder).
If you still have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed this shouldn’t immediately conflict and my guess is that once there is an update it’ll seamlessly fall into place. I don’t forsee any conflicts, but you’re welcome to correct me if I’m wrong.
Many of you might be familiar with my post concerning How to install Flock on Ubuntu. I’ve been using Flock now for months and I really enjoy it. Recently, however, I noticed that a few multimedia functions that I had supported in Firefox were not supported in Flock, despite the fact that the correct plugins were installed. After a little research I realized that this was due to Flock merely not knowing where to find them. Below is a quick one-line command to make sure Flock matches any multimedia support that Firefox has, whether this be Flash Player 9 Beta on Ubuntu, Java, etc.
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/* /opt/flock/plugins
Basically, if you didn’t follow what that command does, it simply creates a symbolic link inside the flock/plugins folder to any plugin available in firefox. Running this command will make sure that anything supported as a Firefox plugin will also be supported as a Flock plugin (this, of course, is based on the fact that Flock is based on Firefox).
note: if you’ve added or updated any plugins for Firefox you may need to repeat the command to re-sync anything new to your Flock plugins.