Flash Plugin on Fedora 9

Fedora 10 Users

Go here if you are a Fedora 10 user: http://hacktux.com/fedora/10/flash

OpenSource Flash Plugins

Fedora 9 features the Open Source Flash player, Swfdec. You can install the Swfdec plugin for Firefox using Yum.
sudo yum install swfdec-mozilla

Fedora 9 also provides Gnash.
sudo yum install gnash-plugin

Install Adobe Flash Using Yum

Alternatively, you can use Adobe's Flash plugin. To install the Adobe Flash plugin on Fedora 9 visit http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ and click Download Now. Then select YUM for Linux and download the provided RPM (adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm).

Install the downloaded RPM which installs /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo.
sudo rpm -i adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Check that you can access the Adobe Yum repository.
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=adobe* list

Next, remove the Fedora Swfdec and Gnash plugin to avoid conflicts.
sudo yum remove swfdec-mozilla gnash-plugin

Now, install the Adobe Flash Plugin
sudo yum install flash-plugin

Finally, add the Adobe plugin is in your $HOME/.mozilla/plugins folder.
mkdir -p $HOME/.mozilla/plugins cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so .

For Fedora 9 i386, you should be done. If you are running x86_64, read on.

Firefox x86_64 with 32-bit Adobe Flash

The Adobe Flash plugin is not available as an x86_64 package. If you need to run a 64-bit browser, but need Adobe Flash, you can use ndiswrapper to run the 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin on the 64-bit Firefox browser.

First, install Livna's release package for Fedora 9. This will provide you with access to Livna.org's Fedora 9 YUM repository using /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo.

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm

Next, install ndiswrapper from Livna.org.

sudo yum -y install ndiswrapper

Now, install both the i386 and x86_64 packages for nspluginwrapper from Fedora's YUM repositories

sudo yum -y install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64}

Finally, install the i386 version of libflashsupport and the i386 version of pulseaudio-libs (for flash sound support).

sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-libs.i386 libflashsupport.i386

Sources

fedorasolved.org: Adding the Flash Player Plugin
adobe.com: Adobe - Flash Player: Installation instructions

Fedora

Comments

Wed, 12/24/2008 - 7:37pm — dwpbike (not verified)

thanks for the post. i had

thanks for the post. i had given up on x86_64. when the 32 bit seemed to install but didn't, i was headed back to fc8. when i recover, i may try the 64 again.

Thu, 11/20/2008 - 7:18pm — Dean (not verified)

I really like the color

I really like the color scheme and layout of your website. I think it is very tasteful and elegant. I also want to correct something; The ndiswrapper is for wireless interfaces so I am wondering why you stated:

"you can use ndiswrapper to run the 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin on the 64-bit Firefox browser"

I am a seasoned sys admin so I can catch the error, but someone new to linux will be confused. Please correct it so as not to confuse anyone.

Thank you,
Dean.

Tue, 12/16/2008 - 6:05pm — Leamas (not verified)

Nice documention, thanks!

Nice documention, thanks! Note that is is also possible to make a system-wide installation of the plugin instead of linking to each user's private plugin dir. This is easily accomplished with the command "$ sudo /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup" which creates a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

Sun, 11/02/2008 - 6:38am — Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks a million.

Wed, 10/22/2008 - 11:06pm — ahem (not verified)

THANK YOU LIFE SAVER!!!!!!!

THANK YOU LIFE SAVER!!!!!!! :D

Fri, 10/24/2008 - 1:23pm — Threader Slash (not verified)

Thanks a lot man! It really

Thanks a lot man! It really rocks!!! Step by step... worked perfectly fine.

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 6:14am — Anoop (not verified)

Lifesaver! Worked like a

Lifesaver! Worked like a charm with every step until the last line. I have

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008092318 Fedora/3.0.2-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.2

Thanks a lot. I also followed the link "fedorasolved.org: Adding the Flash Player Plugin" and in that page secton "x86_64 Support" --> "How to test"

Plugged in flash 9. Thanks.

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 7:29am — John (not verified)

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