Installing Adobe flash player on Ubuntu 7.10

These days flash player is a must have plugin for browsers. Without it you cannot a lot of video sharing sites such as YouTube. By default Ubuntu doesn’t come with flash player since the Adobe flash player is proprietary. So I did,

jayson@jayson-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Everything went smooth till the last step where I got,

Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

It turns out that Ubuntu does a MD5 checksum check on the packages it install. Unfortunately Adobe changed the flash player installer sometime in December. So what to do?

The solution is to manually install flash player. Ensure that you close all the browser windows before doing this.

# get the flash player tar
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

# extract the tar file
tar xvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

# run the installer
cd install_flash_player_9_linux
./flashplayer-installer

# specify the firefox folder during installation
/usr/lib/firefox

Thatz it. Now you can watch flash videos on Ubuntu!
This also shows why it may be better for your grandma to stick with Windows! :-)

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10 Responses to “Installing Adobe flash player on Ubuntu 7.10”

  • 1
    Mr. Dave
    January 9th, 2008 11:35

    Thanks for the great detailed instructions! I am pretty new to Ubuntu and ran into the same “NOT installed” error. I tried installing the gnash player, but it did a terrible job rendering the video.

    I followed your guidance and had the Adobe flash player working in no time. This saved me so much searching/tinkering time - Thanks again!

  • 2
    Andy
    January 14th, 2008 19:22

    Thank you, setting up a laptop for my 10yr old daughter, could not get youtube to work (flash installed but not being recognised) turned to Google and your page came up. followed it solved problem.
    Thanks

  • 3
    acl
    January 28th, 2008 09:24

    Thanks for the source

  • 4
    Getting Flash to Work with Ubuntu 7.10 — Allen Lew’s Thoughts
    January 31st, 2008 11:30

    [...] Adobe Flash Player on your Ubuntu 7.10 install, Jayson Joseph Chacko wrote an excellent post with a set of terminal commands to get Adobe Flash installed. Thanks [...]

  • 5
    Allen Lew
    February 1st, 2008 12:15

    Good thing I found this tip. Otherwise, I couldn’t watch Youtube videos on my Ubuntu install. Thanks.

  • 6
    Know Monger
    October 17th, 2008 00:19

    Dude, my Hardy crashed and the only disk I had was this Live CD of 7.10. I was searched for the last full hour for a solution to this problem of flash not getting installed.

    You saved my day, man. I pasted all this to an .sh file and ran it like a shell script and everything worked. God bless you. :)

  • 7
    pavan
    October 31st, 2008 21:36

    when i did this it says

    pavan@pavan-laptop:/$ tar xvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
    tar: install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

  • 8
    Alex Howe
    January 28th, 2009 18:00

    This didn’t work for me. The installation completes but you tube videos still cannot be viewed!

  • 9
    santosh
    February 18th, 2009 09:43

    I followed your guidance and had the Adobe flash player working in no time. This saved me so much searching/tinkering time - Thanks again!

  • 10
    Arjjun
    February 22nd, 2009 04:34

    wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

    says ” Error 404 not found”,and also this website gives the same error on browser

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