{"id":6210,"date":"2016-09-06T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6210"},"modified":"2016-12-15T11:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T11:21:21","slug":"adobe-resurrect-flash-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/adobe-resurrect-flash-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Resurrect Flash for Linux via 23 Beta [Howto-install]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/adobe-flash-icon245.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/adobe-flash-icon245.png\" alt=\"adobe-flash-icon245\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By releasing the 23 Beta flash, Adobe announced that it starts <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/flashplayer\/2016\/08\/beta-news-flash-player-npapi-for-linux.html\" target=\"_blank\">supporting NPAPI Flash for Linux<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Today we are updating the beta channel with Linux NPAPI Flash Player by moving it forward and in sync with the modern release branch (currently version 23).  We have done this significant change to improve security and provide additional mitigation to the Linux community.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, we communicated that NPAPI Linux releases would stop in 2017.  This is no longer the case and once we have performed sufficient testing and received community feedback, we will release both NPAPI and PPAPI Linux builds with their major version numbers in sync and on a regular basis.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adobe says it will release both the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NPAPI\" target=\"_blank\">NPAPI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Native_Client#Pepper\" target=\"_blank\">PPAPI<\/a> (used in Chrome) versions of Flash Player for Linux. However, the NPAPI version will not support or add any advanced features and capabilities, like DRM, GPU acceleration, Stage 3D, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Users who require this functionality are recommended to use <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/ipepper-flash-for-firefox-ubuntu-15-10\/\" title=\"Install Pepper Flash for Firefox in Ubuntu\" target=\"_blank\">Pepper (PPAPI) Flash for Linux<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/about-flash.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/about-flash-600x328.jpg\" alt=\"About Flash 23\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/about-flash-600x328.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/about-flash-450x246.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/about-flash.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Install Adobe Flash 23 Beta for Firefox in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Flash sucks! But since many websites still use it, we have to use flash to view the content. <\/p>\n<p>So far only 32-bit and 64-bit binaries of the 23 release are available for download at the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/downloads\/flashplayer.html' class='arconix-button arconix-button-medium arconix-button-gray' target=\"_blank\" >Flash Player 23 Beta for Linux (NPAPI)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Linux, the binary is just a file called: <b>libflashplayer.so<\/b>. To use it, do:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Install Flash Player 11.2 from Canonical Partners repository:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b>, and enable Canonical Partners repository in <i>Other Software<\/i> tab. Then close it.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/enable-canonical.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/enable-canonical-450x167.jpg\" alt=\"enable canonical partners\" width=\"450\" height=\"167\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/enable-canonical-450x167.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/enable-canonical-600x222.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/enable-canonical.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install Adobe-flashplugin:\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update; sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Move the <b>libflashplayer.so<\/b> file you just downloaded to <i>\/usr\/lib\/adobe-flashplugin\/<\/i> folder by running the command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo mv ~\/Downloads\/libflashplayer.so \/usr\/lib\/adobe-flashplugin\/<\/pre>\n<p>Finally restart Firefox browser and check your flash version:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Selection_457.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Selection_457-600x223.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe Flash 23 for Firefox\" width=\"600\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Selection_457-600x223.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Selection_457-450x167.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Selection_457.jpg 1501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By releasing the 23 Beta flash, Adobe announced that it starts supporting NPAPI Flash for Linux again. Today we are updating the beta channel with Linux NPAPI Flash Player by moving it forward and in sync with the modern release branch (currently version 23). We have done this significant change to improve security and provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1053],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-adobe-flash"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","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=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}