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

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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.

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.

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.

Thanks a million.

Thanks a million.

THANK YOU LIFE SAVER!!!!!!!

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

Thanks a lot man! It really

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

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.

Excellent, thanks so much!

Excellent, thanks so much!

couldn't get either

couldn't get either swfdec-mozilla or nash-plugin to work with google videos on fedora 9 64 bit. your instructions worked great to get adobe's software piped to 32 bit. Thanks for the post.

very very good, the

very very good, the documentation is explain well in the details all steps and all it works perfectly.
Thank you for your help
Best regards
Giancarlo

the Flash Plugin is good for

the Flash Plugin is good for OPERA.
Thanks Thanks Thanks

thank you so much for

thank you so much for this!
I have now nvidia drivers working and flash.