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Install Flash Player 9 Beta in Ubuntu

Posted by Admin on October 19th, 2006

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Adobe Flash Player is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. Designs, animation, and application user interfaces are deployed immediately across all browsers and platforms, attracting and engaging users with a rich Web experience.

Install Flash Player 9 in Ubuntu Dapper

First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following Repository list and save the file

deb http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper 3v1n0
deb-src http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper 3v1n0

Now you need to copy the key for this Repository list using the following

sudo wget http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/EDD1E155.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Update the source list using the following command

sudo apt-get update

Install flash player Plugin using the follwoing command

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

One more method is you can install this from the source code.If you want to install source code download flashplayer from here

extract the tar.gz file and copy libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins or ~/.mozilla/plugins (check where this directory is located in your ubuntu desktop)

More applications Repository list can be found here

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6 Responses to “Install Flash Player 9 Beta in Ubuntu”

  1. chuck Says:

    Hey, this isn’t working for me. When I do the apt-get update, I get some error messages at the end:

    Err http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper/3v1n0 Packages
    404 Not Found
    Fetched 3189B in 1s (1774B/s)
    Failed to fetch http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/dists/dapper/3v1n0/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
    Reading package lists… Done
    W: GPG error: http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2D6CFB44DD800CD9
    W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
    E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

    Afterwards I went ahead and tried apt-get install’ing the flashplugin-nonfree package:

    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree… Done
    E: Couldn’t find package flashplugin-nonfree

  2. Admin Says:

    you need to run this command to copy the key

    sudo wget http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/EDD1E155.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

    and the run

    sudo apt-get update

    now you try to run the flash plugin installation.

    hope this helps

  3. chuck Says:

    Yeah, I’ve followed your instructions 100%, and when I had trouble, I did it again. Merely repeating part of your instructions because you apparently assume I’m a moron who didn’t bother to read them is not helping. Thanks for playing anyway.

  4. Admin Says:

    try this from flash source code

    sudo wget -c http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer9_update/FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz

    sudo tar -xvf FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz

    sudo mv /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.7

    sudo cp flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

    sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so

    hope this helps

  5. Mr F Bar Esq. Says:

    Which part of the fact he’s running an AMD64 isn’t making sense to you people?

    Chuck – you’re stuffed. The Flash player is only for 32 bit systems. You might be able to get it to work by setting up a 32 bit system in a chroot as you would for FLash 7.

  6. harish says Says:

    my problem is
    cannot open display: (null)
    Run ‘gedit –help’ to see a full list of available command line options.

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