[SOLVED] Install Adobe flash in Debian and make it work!

The default flash player won't play a lot of videos for me. Hence, I installed Adobe flash player 11 directly from Adobe site.

• First uninstall default flash player by #apt-get remove gnash
• Download latest Firefox install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz from Adobe site, store it in downloads and exit Firefox or any web browser.
• Hit root terminal and type

#cd ./Downloads
#tar xvf install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
#cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
#cd ./usr/bin
#cp flash-player-properties /usr/local/bin


Now once you restart Firefox, by default it will use the Adobe Flash Player for live streaming or playing flash videos.

You may face a situation like me - after installation of Adobe flash, iceweasel kept crashing. To handle it, you need to install Firefox and remove iceweasel. My blog post describes how to install Firefox and remove iceweasel.


http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.in/2012/06/install-firefox-13-in-linux-i-installed.html

19 June 2012

One minor correction - please install install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz or Adobe Flash player 10. Somehow live streaming lags in Flash Player 11 even after stopping hardware acceleration. I removed it and installed Flash Player 10 and it performs way better than Flash Player 11. Search online for Flash Player 10 or install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz.

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Some quick fix for Debian to get all the desired functionalities

I am jotting down the issues that I faced with Debian, in case I or any user requires it for future reference.

1. Change grub: Once Debian installs, it updates the grub and makes it the default distro. In case you have Ubuntu/Mint/Windows installed, you may like to have a different default distro. Steps are

• Record the sequence where your default distro is (starts with 0)
• Go to root terminal and type #gedit /etc/default/grub 
• Change the boot option (default=0) and boot timing (default=5), in case you need it
• Close it after saving
• Come back to root terminal and type #update-grub
• Grub will get updated with your preferred booting option

2. Software center would ask for installation CD every time
This is from the installation manual http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/

• Go to root terminal and type #gedit /etc/apt/sources.list 
• Comment out the debian installation iso option at the top
• Come back to root terminal and type #apt-get update

3. Include Mint Debian repository in Debian
I did this to install Firefox but unfortunately it was in Dutch whereas I needed English-US

• Go to root terminal and type #gedit /etc/apt/sources.list 
• Add at the end deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian import
• Go to root terminal and type 

#apt-get update

#apt-get remove iceweasel 

#apt-get install firefox

• Iceweasel will be removed and Firefox installed.

4. To install Adobe flash player
The default flash player won't play a lot of videos for me. Hence, I installed Adobe flash player 11 directly from Adobe site.

• First uninstall default flash player by #apt-get remove gnash
• Download latest Firefox install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz from Adobe site, store it in downloads and exit Firefox or any web browser.
• Hit root terminal and type

#cd ./Downloads
#tar xvf install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
#cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
#cd ./usr/bin
#cp flash-player-properties /usr/local/bin


Now once you restart Firefox, by default it will use the Adobe Flash Player for live streaming or playing flash videos.

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