108 Comments

1. Kholis Anwari / August 12, 2011

   Nice tutorial. It works on my CentOS 5.6. Thank you JR.

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2. Phixyn / August 24, 2011

   Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I was able to install Flash Player on Fedora 15 32-bit with no problems at all! I have mentioned this article on my website, I hope that’s ok :)

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3. Shashi / August 28, 2011

   Thanks a lot…..

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4. BigV / September 5, 2011

   I was just about to bail on Fedora15 and go back to windows 7, this put some life back in this experiment, good job dude

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   • JR / September 15, 2011

     Hi BigV,

     Excellent choice. Fedora 15 is so much better than Windows 7… ;D

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5. Lii_Lii / September 13, 2011

   mine is not working!1

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6. Lii_Lii / September 13, 2011

   its sayin i already have mine…but wen i open adobe and type in the about:plugins i not seeing wat i should see

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   • JR / September 15, 2011

     Hi Lii_Lii,

     Could you tell me little bit more specific about your problem.
     What OS do you use?
     What browser do you use?
     Do you get any SELinux error?

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7. Santhosh / September 19, 2011

   Hi,

   Thanks a lot.. I was searching for this for the past two months…Thanks a lot…It worked for me :-)

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8. jasvanee.karan / October 3, 2011

   Thanks boss…
   I tried the wget micromedia 64-bit flash option given above in my fedora-15-86-64bit version installed in my 64-bit system.
   Its works fine..
   again thanks a lot boss

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9. sophie / October 4, 2011

   nice! this one also works for fedora 8!!! :)

   you’re a genius JR!

   thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much!

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10. Luis / October 4, 2011

    GRACIAS AMIGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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11. huter86_bg / October 10, 2011

    That`s fantastic, now i can update my flash player just using yum on Rhel 6.1 under VMware.
    It`s so simple and easy that even a newbie like me understands it.
    Dude , get a bier for me…

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12. kaleinjio / October 19, 2011

    Its more facilty thanks

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13. Alex Garcia / November 13, 2011

    Thanks man, I’ve just installed fedora for the 1st time and was looking for this.

    kudos

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14. Leek Soup / November 27, 2011

    I have done this install several times and even tried it manual. But every time, I don’t see it in about:plugins. I searched your comments and see you ask if there is SELinux error. Yes, I get one

    The npviewer.bin application attempted to load /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so which requires text relocation. This is a potential security problem. Most libraries do not need this permission. Libraries are sometimes coded incorrectly and request this permission. The SELinux Memory Protection Tests web page explains how to remove this requirement. You can configure SELinux temporarily to allow /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so to use relocation as a workaround, until the library is fixed. Please file a bug report.

    What to do now?

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15. Leek Soup / November 27, 2011

    PS I try the suggested solution of
    chcon -t textrel_shlib_t ‘/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so’

    Now I don’t get SELinux errors but its still not working and not showing in about:plugins

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16. Leek Soup / November 27, 2011

    Sorry – some more info
    FC12, x86_64, Firefox 8.0.1

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17. JR / November 27, 2011

    Hi Leek Soup,

    Did you installed 32-bit version or 64-bit version?

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18. Leek Soup / November 28, 2011

    Sorry – 64-bit version. yum shows as installed, but it does not show up in firefox

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    • JR / November 28, 2011

      Try following command:

      chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so'

      You should have /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so, but not /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so file.

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      • Leek Soup / November 28, 2011

        You are right! … trying …. Sadly, that did not work either.

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        • JR / November 28, 2011

          Hi again Leek Soup,

          I decide to dig Fedora 12 x86_64 ISO image from Internet and install old good F12 on VirtualBox. I did just Fedora 12 installation, updated all packages with yum, installed Firefox 8, installed Adobe Flash Player 11

          and here is result:

          

          For me this is working as it should.

          Do you have updated all packages with yum?

          How do you installed Firefox 8?

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          • Leek Soup / November 29, 2011

            All packages are up to date on yum.
            I installed firefox 8 manually to the /usr/lib64/firefox-8.0 directory as I could not find its rpm for fc12. I see your link is a better way. I will try to reinstall ff with your way.

            Thank you for all your help!

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            • Leek Soup / November 29, 2011

              It worked! It worked! thank you! thank you!

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              • JR / November 29, 2011

                Awesome! :D You’re welcome!

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19. John / November 29, 2011

    Thanks a lot!
    Works great on my Fedora 15 64-bit with Firefox 8.0.

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20. Daniel / December 4, 2011

    Thank you! Worked fine on FC 16 64bit with FF 8!
    Best regards! :)

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21. amit / December 16, 2011

    thanks

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22. Steve Kelem / December 17, 2011

    I followed your instructions for Fedora 16 (x86_64), but it doesn’t work:

    Package alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.24-2.fc15.x86_64 already installed and latest version
    Package libcurl-7.21.3-12.fc15.x86_64 already installed and latest version
    Resolving Dependencies
    –> Running transaction check
    —> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.1.102.55-release will be updated
    —> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 2:11.0.1.129-1 will be an update
    —> Package nspluginwrapper.x86_64 0:1.4.4-3.fc15 will be installed
    –> Finished Dependency Resolution
    Error: Protected multilib versions: 2:flash-plugin-11.0.1.129-1.x86_64 != flash-plugin-11.1.102.55-release.i386
    You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
    You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

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    • JR / December 17, 2011

      Hi Steve,

      Could you post output of following command:

      rpm -qa flash*

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      • Steve Kelem / December 29, 2011

        flash-plugin-11.1.102.55-release.i386
        flash-plugin-11.1.102.55-release.x86_64
        flash-release-1-2.noarch

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        • Steve Kelem / December 29, 2011

          I removed the i386 rpm, and now the “yum update” is working.

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          • JR / December 29, 2011

            Hi Steve,

            Nice to hear that you got yum working again! :)

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23. David Levner / January 6, 2012

    Worked for me on a 64-bit Fedora 16 system, whereas apper (the default application that was invoked when I downloaded flash from Adobe’s web site) did not work. Thanks much!

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24. justacomment / January 9, 2012

    A linux tutorial and it actually worked the first time I tried?! Excellent! Thanks a lot.

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25. Giri S / January 14, 2012

    Thanks Man.Nice Tutorial. cheers

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26. sir / January 22, 2012

    The tutotial worked. Thank you.

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27. sivaram / February 1, 2012

    Nice
    Keep updating
    Thank you

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