{"id":3167,"date":"2014-04-11T13:40:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2015-02-06T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T10:55:24","slug":"install-adobe-flash-in-ubuntu-14-04-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/install-adobe-flash-in-ubuntu-14-04-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Adobe Flash in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flash-player-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flash-player-logo.jpg\" alt=\"flash player ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"203\" height=\"172\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2458\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install Adobe Flash player in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr for Firefox and other web browser. If you&#8217;re using Google Chrome, flash player is already installed by default.<\/p>\n<p><b>For 32 bit system:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the command below to update your package lists:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<p>Then open Ubuntu Software Center, search for and install the package <b>flashplugin-installer<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/flashplugin-installer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/flashplugin-installer.jpg\" alt=\"flashplugin-installer\" width=\"525\" height=\"229\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/flashplugin-installer.jpg 525w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/flashplugin-installer-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It extracts the 32-bit Flash player library from the adobe-flashplugin package (which is retrieved from http:\/\/archive.canonical.com\/) and configures itself as default for Internet browsers.<\/p>\n<p><b>For 64 bit system:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Because &#8220;flashplugin-installer&#8221; installs the 32-bit version of Flash and a related compatibility library which may be slower and less stable, so it&#8217;s recommended to install the <b>adobe-flashplugin<\/b> package from canonial partners repository.<\/p>\n<p>First open &#8220;Software &#038; Updates&#8221; from unity dash, then enable the partners repository under Other &#8220;Software&#8221; tab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository.jpg\" alt=\"canonical-partners-repository\" width=\"520\" height=\"239\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository.jpg 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below to install the flash:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get purge adobe-flash{plugin,-properties-gtk}\n\nsudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer<\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install Adobe Flash player in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr for Firefox and other web browser. If you&#8217;re using Google Chrome, flash player is already installed by default. For 32 bit system: Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1053,855],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-adobe-flash","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}