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Install Adobe Flash Player In Fedora 15
Fedora does not ship with Flash support by default. However, it is very easy to enable Flash in Fedora. Here is how you can install Adobe Flash player in Fedora Linux.
These steps I tested on Fedora 15 (Rawhide). However, it should work on any version of Fedora equally well.
Step 1 – Install the Adobe Flash player repository file
Visit http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and select YUM for Linux from the drop down box.
This will download the file named adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm.
Open a terminal and issue the following command within the directory where you have downloaded the repository rpm file.
su -c 'rpm -ivh adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm'
This will install the repository file adobe-linux-i386.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/ .
Step 2 – Import the Adobe GPG key
The .rpm file also copies the adobe General Public Key (GPG key) to /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux but does not import it.
To import the key, do the following…
su -c 'rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux'
Step 3 – Install the Flash Player ensuring sound is enabled
In the terminal, execute the following command …
su -c 'yum install nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio flash-plugin'
Now fedora will update the repository databases and then download the Adobe flash plugin from the adobe website.
It is a 5.2 MB download.
Step 4 – Test the Flash plugin in Firefox
Exit all instances of Firefox and restart Firefox again.
In the Firefox address bar, type the following – about:plugins .
A page will load listing all the installed plugins. See if you have Flash Shockwave plugin listed there.
If you find something similar to the following screenshot, it means Flash player is installed properly.
Just to be doubly sure, open YouTube and see if you can watch video.
[Source : FedoraProject.org]
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#3 written by Black Jack Shellac 2 years ago
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Thanks for the tip
I have used sudo in Ubuntu.
I didn’t know people used it in Fedora too. I will check it out.Update : You can use sudo or su. Both it seems are secure. Here is the quote from the security basics page at Fedora website.
To perform administrative tasks, log in to your system with a standard user account, and use the su or sudo to run individual commands with the privileges of the root account. This ensures that only the specified commands are run with root access. The supplied configuration tools automatically prompt for the root password, if the user has not specified root access with su or sudo.
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#7 written by Andre 2 years ago
Didn’t work for me either on a fresh install of 64-bit FC 15. no error messages, it just isn’t installed in firefox or chrome.
[andre@zoidberg ~]$ su -c ‘yum install nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio flash-plugin’
Password:Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package nspluginwrapper-1.3.2-1.fc15.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.24-2.fc15.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package flash-plugin-10.3.181.14-release.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do-
Hi Andre,
Flash player does not run on most 64-bit browsers and OSes.Check this article on Adobe site – http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html
Hope this helps.
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Damn – fedora is a really nice distro – but i pisses me off that they make it so (comparatively) hard to enable flash and other proprietery stuff. It doesn’t have to be like that.
Take e.g. the whole crunchbang community and phillip (corenoninal)’s debian based distro “crunchbang” – its very focused on open source, and in my view – very innovative in its clean and simple interface – but he is pragmatic when it comes to mp3 and flash. What ever Fedora says – mp3 and flash is still sine qua non on the web.