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.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I’m running into the same issues as Oren.
Has anyone figured this one out?
July 18th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Hi
Since flash player 9 sound rendering is no longer supported. For all those seeking to Even more a big evidence would be to open a flash video website like http://www.youtube.com and you should be able to view the videos. will be treated with some choppy video and silece. This new feature of excellent stereo silence will surely enhance your youtube experience
September 6th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Diablisko’s instructions worked perfectly for me (OpenSuSE 11 on 64 bit architecture), so many thanks!
September 12th, 2009 at 10:44 am
i have a problem
i can download the flash player but after that i unzip and untar it with the target file path tar -zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz after that i open the downloaded file there stands “open with” what do i have to do now???
please answer me!!
September 25th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
@Ray: Actually the tar -zxvf install_… is not a target file path, it’s a command with the file path to be run in a console, terminal, or whatever you call it. It’s just for extracting the content. If you are (sorry) new to Linux, you can just extract using the GUI application like Ark, XArchiver, etc. or anything you can do to extract it.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 am
Noticed bad swf performance, because flash 10 does not support OpenGL (on all GPU’s)
A hack said to modify the libflashplayer.so by opening it in a hex-editor, and replace ‘compiz’ with ‘xxxxxx’.
Upside: Worked for me.
Downside: Firefox crashes at random (not often, but nevertheless)
October 28th, 2009 at 5:28 am
I’ve downloaded the install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz file from the flash player site, untar ed the file onto the desktop but I just got one libflashplayer.so file. I didn’t got any directory, I moved this file into the /usr/lib/browser-plugins as stated in the above posts, but still I got no flash player, the browser is still asking for download plugins. Please help me out with this.
Iam using openSuse linux 11.0
Any help will be highly appreciated,
thanks in advance.
December 24th, 2009 at 3:04 am
If you use gnome and have your own desktop starter created to start firefox, it may not be working. Best to start firefox from computer->firefox or drag & drop the firefox-Item from there to your desktop to create a starter automatically.
If it is still not working you may have to uninstall all 32-bit flash player installations. Than it should be working.
December 24th, 2009 at 3:20 am
Try to start firefox from computer->firexox if you use gnome. There might be an error if you created the starter yourself.
March 4th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Hello,
I use openSUSE 11.2 64 bit and try to install flash 10.1 beta 3 as Diablisko said:
“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”
But I don’t have X.dat file in /usr/lib64/firefox/components/ and now I can’t install successfull flash 10.1 beta 3 in my system
Please help me, thanks!
April 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
This is what i get
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
May 7th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Hi,
iam really new to all this so excuse me if i am askin silly questions, i open the tar file and all i get is libflashplayer.so not any folder nor any installer, how should i get the folder? cause as i understand, i should get a folder with two files inside (libflashplayer.so and installer) i tried extracting with the command and Ark but they both give me one single file not any folder, and i do not understand how can i get it to work, iam running on KDE.
and i am not sure what running (or not running) on root means, if on root means typing commands in Terminal – Super User Mode, then iam not typing commands in super user mode either.
also i tried copying the file but it says access denied. i changed permissions of the folder but no luck.
any help is appreciated.
June 13th, 2010 at 10:12 am
please help me download this
June 20th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Hi,
I am new to Linux and OpenSUSE11.1 is the first version I have ever installed. Already I am having difficulties finding solutions for some problems. Please can you expand on the forum a bit or email me.
Thanks
July 1st, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Hi,
I am having exactly the same problem as Sara, every time I unzip the tar i just get a file called libflashplayer.so and no directory. Can somebody please help me?
July 27th, 2010 at 8:14 am
Hi, I followed Sergio’s advice and now it does work, but only as root. If I log in as a different user flash just doesn’t run. What do you think my problem is?
Thank you
October 13th, 2010 at 8:06 am
[...] The link below states this method should be successful on 10.3. This is the method I tried first on Opensuse 11.2 and it did not work. Could try it on 10.3: http://www.susegeek.com/multimedia/i…pensuse-linux/ [...]
October 16th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
[...] you use the instructions on this page or a similar one to try to install flashplayer: http://www.susegeek.com/multimedia/i…pensuse-linux/ It's supposed to work on 10.3. I tried it on Opensuse 11.2 and it didn't work although I had used [...]
October 25th, 2010 at 6:49 am
I am also using 10.3 have the libflashplayer.so setting on my desktop. The hyper link posted for 10.3 no longer works. I have this problem listed on a couple of forums. Even downloaded a version that has installer. Still the same results. Has anybody found a way to work with the .so file?
Thank you
Sam
November 5th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
The command “tar -zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz” does *not* result in a directory,
it is simply a .so file. So I don’t see how the “cd install_flash_player_10_linux”
command could ever work. So these instructions are useless.
November 19th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
[...] whats the issue with installing flash ? maybe I can help with that to … http://www.susegeek.com/multimedia/i…pensuse-linux/ any questions feel free to comment and I will [...]
November 26th, 2010 at 12:41 am
Hello,
As Jamesu mentioned, the tar.gz file only contains libflashplayer.so and there is not even a readme.txt included so I don’t really know what to do with this file. I already spent 2 evenings searching everywhere I could and nothing worked to get sound out of Firefox and Chrome when playing videos. I have the the Shockwave Flash 10.1 r102 plugin installed in Firefox.
I also already went through that guide: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/new-user-how-faq-read-only/407184-multi-media-restricted-format-installation-guide.html#post2180319
The link that was posted just above is broken.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
April 4th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Hey, I ran into a problem with this too. From the plugin doc page
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html
I installed libflashplayer.so to my plugin directory which was
/usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
updated permissions so that it looks like this with ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12127284 2011-04-04 15:37 libflashplayer.so
and ran (which seemed to be the key):
nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
Hope this helps
June 24th, 2011 at 5:10 am
I have followed the instructions successfully until I get to the installer where I get the message permission denied. How do I change permissions?
June 24th, 2011 at 6:06 am
Following on from my previous message it would appear that I had created an empty document called flashplayer-installer. I have deleted this document and now have a usrs folder and a file called libflashplayer.so. I am in a directory called #/install_flashplay_10_linux I then type ./flashplayer-installer but get the message no such file or directory
Any ideas
August 26th, 2011 at 12:59 am
Neither of aurthor worked for me (cannot untar the file) nor the Diablisko, it’s denies the access to move the file (libflashplayer.so) to the directory that needed.
HEEEELP
(OpenSuse 11.4)