Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on Fedora 18/17, CentOS/RHEL 6.3/5.8
This is guide, howto install Adobe Flash Player Plugin version 11.2 (32-bit and 64-bit) with YUM on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8. Using Adobe’s own YUM repository it is very easy also keep up-to-date with Flash Player Plugin. Finally also native 64-bit (x86_64) version of Adobe Flash Player is available for Linux users.
1. Change Root User
sudo -i ## OR ## su - |
2. Install Adobe YUM Repository RPM package
## Adobe Repository 32-bit x86 ## rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux ## Adobe Repository 64-bit x86_64 ## rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux |
3. Update Repositories
yum check-update |
4a. Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6
Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 32-bit and 64-bit version
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl |
4b. Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on CentOS 5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.8
CentOS and Red Hat 32-bit and 64-bit version
yum groupinstall "Sound and Video" yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper curl |
5. Verify that the Flash Player Plugin is working
Open Mozilla Firefox and write about:plugins on address bar. Results should look like following:
Adobe Flash Player 64-bit on Firefox 17, installed on Fedora 18 64-bit (x86_64)
Adobe Flash Player 64-bit installed on Fedora 16 64-bit (x86_64)
CentOS 5.8 and Red Hat 5.8
Then open following page for real testing Adobe Flash Plugin:
Check is Adobe Flash Plugin Working
sudo mv /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /home/yourusername/.mozilla/plugins
After trying everything this worked like a charm Thanx! ;)
Thank you and thanks for the post author!
Just installed in RHEL 6.3
Just one comment, for those running 32-bit, the command would be:
sudo mv /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /home/yourusername/.mozilla/pluginsThank you
Dear god thank you for posting this.
To whoever posted the original, recommend putting the mv into the original instructions, as just having the flash-plugin rpm doesn’t seem to work for me. Not sure if it’s the way I installed FF, but it only picks up the plugin when it’s in ~/.mozilla/plugins (plugins didn’t exist for me either, had to mkdir it).
As far as I can tell since OP, Adobe yum repo is not updated.
Worked fine. no issues. Thank you to all previous posters!
This post worked like a charm on my RHEL 6 Beta. Thank you very much
For certain the repo will no longer be updated., updates will have to be donw manuall for 5 years using *.rpm form Adobe site.
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3185733
Hi Frankly3D,
Thanks for this information. I update this guide soon…
great!.. Thanks
Thanks a lot for the posts its been great.
thank you very much! greetings from Turkiye
wow worked like a charm I am new to Linux and this was easy as copy and paste Happy Happy JOY JOY :D TYTYTYTYTYTYTYTYTY
tHANTK you very much! that was enough simply way insta flash even me!!
Thank you very much, really bro. Greetings from mexico!
Man! You make my day! thnaks a lot, greetins’ from Fedora 17 :P
hi
i can,t install flash player
Hi moshikgkg,
Could you tell more about your problem, when you try to install flash?
Thanks Alott!!! It worked perfectly!!!
Or do what everyone else does and just link it:
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins ; ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
That way the plugin isn’t moved solely to that user’s home directory.
Thanks…:)
Thank you! This was a great help for me as a n00b beginning my computer journey with Fedora.
I can’t install it :(, I keep getting
No existe disponible ningún paquete flash-plugin.
(flash-plugin is not available).
Any idea how to work around it? my kid wants to kill me!
Hi Marcelo,
Could you post output of following commands:
Hi JR, after some trial and error, the issues seems to be there’s no 64 bits version of the plugin.
Since I really don’t need 64bits running on that computer, and I do need flash, I simply installed a 32bits version of Fedora, now the plugin is working fine.
Thanks for the follow up.
Hi Marcelo,
Actually also Adobe Flash 64-bit version should be available and work normally if you install 64-bit repo.
However, nice to hear that you got it working. :)
Hi all.
I installed Centos 6.3 32 bit version. Followed steps mentioned above. My firefox recognizes shockwave flash in plugins section but I can’t watch youtube videos. It displays nothing and shows no warning or errors either.
Please can anybody give me some sugestion ?
Thanks
Thank you. It works (Fedora 17 LXDE, Firefox 14.0.1).
Why do you have to install “libcurl”?
Thanks and Regards
Hi Rvind,
I think that Flash works mostly without Curl, but based on Adobe Blog information about Curl, for me it looks like Curl (libcurl) is needed on some cases.
Do you have something better or newer information about this?
No! I don’t have a better solution. :)
I just followed your instructions but, I did not install libcurl. Flashy-things seem to work on my system without libcurl. So, I was wondering why libcurl was needed.
HTH.
Thanks for the link to the adobe blog.
Thanks and Regards
Okay! I thought that if I missed something new information :)
Yes, curl is not mandatory (some Flashes might fail), but normally I have curl installed anyways so for me it’s not big deal… :)
On Fedora 17 it works great; problem on Centos 6.3. Anyway this site is very helpful
Hi valerian,
You are welcome!
Do you want to tell more specific about your problem on CentOS 6.3?
Hi JR
On Centos 6.3: I followed the steps described in this topic. In about:plugins the flash plugin is listed. On youtube nothig happens, I mean the screen is black and that’s it. If i disable flash (Everything is happening on mozilla 10 browser), the youtube videos (frameset) is very very slow, so it becomes irritating watching them.
With Fedora 17 is different story; youtube vids worked like a charm. So I gave up on Centos and stick with Fedora.
So I don’t know what can be the prob with Centos. I tried to disinstall/reinstall flash-plugin, nspluginwrapper etc several times, but it makes no difference.
Anyway thanks for asking.
Again this site is very helpful; it helped me with other linux topics
Hi again valerian,
Thanks for this description. :) I tried latest Flash with Firefox 10 on CentOS 6.3 and Youtube videos works normally on my computer. So that’s why this sounds some problem with graphics drivers, but might be some other problem too. :) Anyways Fedora is much better for desktop use than CentOS if you watch videos or listen music. CentOS and RHEL are much better on server side. ;)
Hi JR
thanks for reply; maybe it’s graphic drivers prob I don’t know; anyways I stick with Fedora from now :)
YOU ARE AWESOME! Worked great. Thanks.
Hey, this is a great guide but unfortunately flash isn’t working for me.. Everything seemed to work fine, and
‘adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled: 17′
is installed, but firefox isn’t recognising it.. It’s not coming up under ‘about:plugins’ and youtube tells me i need to upgrade my flash etc.
Any thoughts?
If the following info is of any use then great, if not no worries!
[root@Mike-Laptop-Fedora mike]# yum list flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 1.0.25-3.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
flash-plugin.i386 11.2.202.238-release @adobe-linux-i386
libcurl.x86_64 7.24.0-5.fc17 @updates
nspluginwrapper.x86_64 1.4.4-11.fc17 @updates
Available Packages
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 1.0.25-3.fc17 fedora
libcurl.i686 7.24.0-5.fc17 updates
nspluginwrapper.i686 1.4.4-11.fc17 updates
[root@Mike-Laptop-Fedora mike]# yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled: 17
fedora Fedora 17 – x86_64 enabled: 27,033
fedora-debuginfo Fedora 17 – x86_64 – Debug disabled
fedora-source Fedora 17 – Source disabled
updates Fedora 17 – x86_64 – Updates enabled: 8,221
updates-debuginfo Fedora 17 – x86_64 – Updates – Debug disabled
updates-source Fedora 17 – Updates Source disabled
updates-testing Fedora 17 – x86_64 – Test Updates disabled
updates-testing-debuginfo Fedora 17 – x86_64 – Test Updates Debu disabled
updates-testing-source Fedora 17 – Test Updates Source disabled
repolist: 35,271
Hi Mike,
Could you also post output of following commands:
Hi JR, Yeah course! Thanks so much for your help….. here goes:
[mike@Mike-Laptop-Fedora ~]$ yum list firefox
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
updates/metalink | 27 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 17/17
Installed Packages
firefox.x86_64 15.0-1.fc17 @updates
[mike@Mike-Laptop-Fedora ~]$ uname -a
Linux Mike-Laptop-Fedora 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 7 17:29:34 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hope that’s of some use!
Mike :]
Hi Mike,
Thanks for this info. Looks like your problem is 32-bit flash-plugin with 64-bit Firefox. So try following:
Then close all Firefox instances and start Firefox again. Test flash, is it working then?
Oh really?! How’ve I ended up with 64 bit fedora?? Definitely didn’t mean to do that.. Ok thanks!! Sadly, I’ve just tried booting fedora and it got as far as the artwork and then total system fail twice :( I’ll try it again tomorrow but it seems pretty unwell so I will try out the 64bit flash as soon as I get it working again and let you know!
Wow, I’ve just checked on the Fedora site and the main download link is for the 64bit version, I just assumed the main one would be 32 sorry, you’ve got to click ‘more download options’ to get to the 32 bit.
Really sorry to bother you you’re a star! Looks like I’ll be starting from scratch … Never mind!
All the best,
Mike.
64-bit Fedora is nowadays good choice, because Flash, Java etc. works normally on x86_64 systems. :) So even if start from scratch you can even so select Fedora 64-bit.
Thank you for the compliment. This didn’t bother me at all, I’m happy if I can help you. If you have some other problem, feel free to ask. :)
Thank you for sharing. It solved my Firefox + Youtube issue on Fedora 17
Thanks a lot! Worked like a charm on Fedora17 64bit!
Thank you! Successful install on CentOS 5.8 32-bit.
Thank you!!!
I can’t get the bbc video on things like the bbc sport website to work. Any solutions?
Hi rob,
Could you tell more specific about your problem?
Your browser and system?
Did you got flash successfully installed?
Is flash working on other sites?
I just installed fedora-17 64 bit on my PC. I also installed gecko-mediaplayer* and flashplayer. However, when I tried to play streaming videos from
http://www.cybertechmedia.com/samplevideos.html
I only get the sound and no video. What should I do to fix this problem? Thanks.
Hi Mike,
Maybe you can try mplayer or vlc and their browser plugins.
I checked that page and there is only Windows Media (.asx), Real Player (.ram) and QuickTime videos, so Flashplayer is totally useless there.
the original saved my life.thank you poster
Gracias, tenia instalado, pero solo andaba para firefox, ahora anda también para chromium ;)
showing error;no such plugins found
Hi lakshya,
What browser you are using?
firefox 12.0
Could you post output of following commands:
ya here it is
[root@lakshya lakshya]# rpm -qa firefox\* \*flash\*
firefox-12.0-1.fc17.i686
[root@lakshya lakshya]#
[root@lakshya lakshya]# ls -la /usr/lib/flash-plugin/
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/flash-plugin/: No such file or directory
[root@lakshya lakshya]#
[root@lakshya lakshya]# ls -la /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/
ls: cannot access /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/: No such file or directory
[root@lakshya lakshya]#
[root@lakshya lakshya]# uname -a
Linux lakshya 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 #1 SMP Mon May 7 17:45:26 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@lakshya lakshya]#
ya here it is
[root@lakshya lakshya]# rpm -qa firefox\* \*flash\*
firefox-12.0-1.fc17.i686
[root@lakshya lakshya]#
[root@lakshya lakshya]# ls -la /usr/lib/flash-plugin/
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/flash-plugin/: No such file or directory
[root@lakshya lakshya]#
[root@lakshya lakshya]# ls -la /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/
ls: cannot access /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/: No such file or directory
[root@lakshya lakshya]#
[root@lakshya lakshya]# uname -a
Linux lakshya 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 #1 SMP Mon May 7 17:45:26 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@lakshya lakshya]#
Looks like you don’t have flash-plugin installed at all?
Could you run following command again:
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurlDo you get any errors?
ya , please help
this is error
No package flash-plugin available.
No package nspluginwrapper available.
Nothing to do
Looks like you don’t have Adobe repository installed or working.
Could post output of following command:
yum repolistya sure here it is
[root@lakshya lakshya]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-x86_64 | 951 B 00:00
http://mirror.bjtu.edu.cn/rpmfusion/free/fedora/development/rawhide/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] curl#6 – “Couldn’t resolve host”
Trying other mirror.
rpmfusion-free-rawhide | 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-rawhide/primary_db | 356 kB 00:19
rpmfusion-free-rawhide-debuginfo | 2.7 kB 00:00
Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:
Current : Sat Dec 15 13:58:01 2012
Downloaded: Thu Dec 13 01:47:09 2012
rpmfusion-free-rawhide-source | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-rawhide-source/primary_db | 82 kB 00:02
rpmfusion-free-updates | 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates-source | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 3.3 kB 00:00
repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-x86_64 Adobe Systems Incorporated 2
rpmfusion-free-rawhide RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide – Free 362
rpmfusion-free-rawhide-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide – Free – D 156
rpmfusion-free-rawhide-source RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide – Free – S 0
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 17 – Free – Update 799
rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora 17 – Free – Update 188
rpmfusion-free-updates-source RPM Fusion for Fedora 17 – Free – Update 0
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 17 – Nonfree 154
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 17 – Nonfree – Upd 593
repolist: 2,254
Your problem is actually very simple, you have 32-bit Linux and 64-bit Adobe repo, so simply do following:
And try again. Is it working then?
no again same error is showing
[lakshya@lakshya ~]$ su
Password:
[root@lakshya lakshya]# rpm -e adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch
error: package adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch is not installed
[root@lakshya lakshya]# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
package adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch is already installed
[root@lakshya lakshya]# rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
[root@lakshya lakshya]# yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No package flash-plugin available.
No package nspluginwrapper available.
Nothing to do
[root@lakshya lakshya]#
Looks really strange, you have Adobe 32-bit repo installed, but yum uses Adobe 64-bit repo.
Could you then post output of following commands:
[lakshya@lakshya ~]$ ls -la /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 64
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Dec 18 11:04 .
drwxr-xr-x. 116 root root 12288 Dec 19 10:43 ..
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 179 Dec 4 11:58 adobe-linux-i386.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1144 Dec 4 12:51 fedora.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1105 Dec 4 11:58 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1163 May 5 2012 fedora-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1325 Dec 4 12:51 rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1202 Dec 4 12:51 rpmfusion-free.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1200 Dec 4 12:40 rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1260 May 18 2012 rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1393 Feb 28 2012 rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1247 Oct 29 2011 rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1245 Oct 29 2011 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 1305 May 17 2009 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
[lakshya@lakshya ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux*
[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
Some reason your adobe-linux-i386 repo is not enabled. So change enabled=1 or use following command to install needed packages:
thank you very much …
thanks a lot jr it works!!!
Excellent! You are very welcome!
Thanks so very much finally was able to get adobe up and running on Fedora 17.
Beefy Miracle now improved.
It worked like a charm
You’re best!
Works like a charm under Fedora 18 Gnome.
Many thanks for this.
Works like a dream on Fedora 18. Copy and paste away. Fantastic and many thanks
Thank you very much for this wonderful post.your information regarding mysql installation is really cool approach.
will you plz…. tell me how to install vlc in fedora 18.
Installation FAILS can’t resolve the “64-bit” fedora18 RPM see output.
HOW to fix?
[root@localhost jaack]# yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-18-x86_64/RPMS.apps/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 – Not Found : http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-18-x86_64/RPMS.apps/repodata/repomd.xml
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from cbi-apps: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-18-x86_64/RPMS.apps/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 – Not Found : http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-18-x86_64/RPMS.apps/repodata/repomd.xml
Hi JAAACK,
Looks like your mirror doesn’t have 64-bit (x86_64) packages at all, I see only 32-bit packages, if I check:
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/
So simply try some another mirror.
I am having problems with 64bit centos 6.3,,,
root@CentOS ~]# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:adobe-release-x86_64 ########################################### [100%]
[root@CentOS ~]# yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
* extras: mirror.es.its.nyu.edu
* rpmforge: mirror.us.leaseweb.net
* updates: mirrors.gigenet.com
http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/6/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned error: 404″
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: Dropbox. Please verify its path and try again
[root@CentOS ~]#
Hi Mike,
If you go to url: http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/6/repodata/repomd.xml
As you can see, there is not /fedora/6/ path at all, so looks like your Dropbox repo doesn’t work with CentOS 6 or you have to edit repo manually and change it something like following:
http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/12/repodata/repomd.xml
I select Fedora 12 here, because RHEL/CentOS 6 based on Fedora 12 (originally).