Donnerstag, 4. Juli 2013

HowTo Install adobe flash player for firefox 64bit on Oracle Linux

  1. Get flash Player for Linux 64bit:
    http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
    I downloaded both, the
    - yum for linux (to easy get updates with yum in future)
    - *.tar.gz version
  2. Identify as root user and install yum version download with
    package installer or by command line as user root i.e.:
    # rpm -Uhv adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  3. Now we have to move the "libflashplayer.so" into the mozilla plugin directory.
    1. Open a terminal window, become root user:
      # su -
      Unzip the *.tar.gz file
      # gunzip *.tar.gz
      The *.tar file remains.
      # tar -xf *.tar
      This should extract the "libflashplayer.so" file we need to move to the mozilla plugins directory.
    2. Verify the mozilla plugin directory exists:
      /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins  (if the plugins directory does not exist, create it)
    3. Close your firefox, if it is still running.
    4. Copy the "libflashplayer.so" to the mozilla plugins directory:
      cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
  4. Open Firefox again and test your flash player configuration:
    http://www.adobe.com/uk/software/flash/about/