Install Adobe Flash Player 10 in openSUSE Linux
Posted by admin on November 1st, 2008
Features and enhancements include
Creative Expression
Custom Filters and Effects
3D Effects
New Text Engine
Text Layout Components
Drawing API Enhancements
Color ManagementVisual Performance Improvements
GPU Compositing
GPU Blitting
Anti-Aliasing Engine (Saffron 3.1)
Vector Data TypeRich Media
Enhanced Sound APIs
Dynamic Streaming
RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol)
Speex Audio CodecOther Enhancements
NSS for Linux
Linux WMODE
Video4Linux v2 Support
unloadAndStop
Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access
File Reference
Dynamic Sound Generation
Large Bitmap Support
Context Menu
GB18030 Compliance
For more details, click here to view the release notes for Adobe Flash Player 10
Install Adobe Flash Player 10
The procedure here should work on all openSUSE versions and definitely on openSUSE 10.3/11.0/11.1 beta. To install Adobe Flashplayer 10, it is important that you uninstall any previous versions of flashplayer installed on your openSUSE.
To check if flashplayer is already installed on your system
saibaba@opensuse:~> rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-player-9.0.124.0-10.1
If any is uninstall as a root user as follows:
opensuse11:~ # rpm -e flash-player
Now, download Adobe Flash Player 10 from here.
Ensure you choose to download the “tar.gz” version. The reason for this being that the installer should be run as the user. In other words, do not run the installer as Root.
Unzip & Untar Flashplayer 10
Once downloaded, unzip, untar the downloaded file.
saibaba@opensuse:~> tar -zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
Install Adobe Flash Player 10
Close any browser opened and change directory to the extracted folder and run the installer. Press ENTER when prompted to continue the installation. Enter the default installation directory to be the .mozilla directory in your user profile (for example, /home/sai/.mozilla). This should be choosen by default. If so, accept defaults.
saibaba@opensuse:~> cd install_flash_player_10_linux
saibaba@opensuse:~/install_flash_player_10_linux> ./flashplayer-installer
Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved.
Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux
Adobe Flash Player 10 will be installed on this machine.
You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as a non-root user.
Adobe Flash Player 10 will be installed in your home directory.Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/
To install Adobe Flash Player 10 now, press ENTER.
To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.
NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.
Press ENTER to continue…
———– Install Action Summary ———–
Adobe Flash Player 10 will be installed in the following directory:
Mozilla installation directory = /home/saibaba/.mozilla
Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y
NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the
components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.Installation complete.
Perform another installation? (y/n): n
This should install Adobe Flash Player in your openSUSE.
To confirm successful installation launch your Firefox browser and in the address bar type “about:plugins” and press enter. This show the installed plugins of which one should be your newly installed Adobe Flashplayer 10. Even more a big evidence would be to open a flash video website like www.youtube.com and you should be able to view the videos.
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
When I run the install script it asks me
“Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/bin/firefox”
It then accepts neither
“/usr/bin/firefox” nor “/usr/lib/firefox” nor
“/usr/lib/firefox/firefox”
So how is this supposed to work?
Any hints (I’m running 11.1-b3)?
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Thanks for the howto. How about getting it to work under x64 version? I’ve installed it with nspluginwrapper, but it doesn’t seem to work, although it was working in 11.1.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
@Stefan: Just don’t run the installer as root. Just run as normal user and the script will suggest the correct directory.
To use the plugin in konqueror it may be necessary to start a plugin search in the konqueror plugin configuration dialog
November 18th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
To install flash 10 system-wide just untar the installer and as root move libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/browser-plugins/
I’m using 11.0
November 21st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
big thanks for the author!
November 26th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Sérgio is right.
After installing rpm, you need to copy libflashplayer.so from /usr/lib/flash-player/ to /usr/lib/browser-plugins/ (OpenSUSE 11.0)
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I’m a little new to linux so please forgive me if this is a dumb question. I installed flash using this method, but does YAST “know” it is installed?
The only reason I ask is say I installed another package that for whatever reason depended on flash being installed, whould it see it that it already is?
December 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am
hi
i have followed the same instructions. i am not about to install 10 version.. in the plugin it is still showing flash plyer 7 version. i am able to watch youtube but when ever i open expertvillage.com i am unable to watch the video
February 9th, 2009 at 9:10 am
But guys how can i install it as a root user???
February 28th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
so, i am a total linux noob, how do i not do it as root? is root the default account i made when installing
(11.1) when i try to unzip/untar it, i get an error:
oren@linux-sst0:~> tar -zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
tar: install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
oren@linux-sst0:~>
thanks
March 31st, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Thanks! I did your installation instruction but the reply is this:
jo:~> cd install_flash_player_10_linux
jo:~/install_flash_player_10_linux> ./flashplayer-installer
ERROR: Your architecture, \’x86_64\’, is not supported by the
Adobe Flash Player installer.
Is there an Adobe Flash Player for this architecture?
Thanks in advance!
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:03 am
This is how it works for me on opensuse 64 bit.
You have to get 64bit version of library from Adobe homesite (dont remember location, you can google it). Its prerelease version, not available from default download place, but its definitely somewhere there.
do all as root: (close all browsers!)
unpack anywhere
copy unpacked ‘libflashplayer.so’ to ‘/usr/lib64/browser-plugins’ directory
set permissions: ‘chmod 755 /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so’
remove ‘/usr/lib64/firefox/components/X.dat’ file
restart firefox
good luck
May 16th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Here you download the pre-release version of Adobe flash player 10 64-bit:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
Then just follow the instructions by Diablisko.