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Introduction

Adobe Flash Player is proprietary software released by Adobe. It's used by many popular websites, including YouTube and Hulu. However, because of license restrictions on this program's distribution, Ubuntu cannot include Flash automatically.

Nevertheless, it is easy to easy to install Flash Player by yourself through the Ubuntu Software Center. You could also try one of several free alternatives.

Installing Flash for Firefox

Ubuntu (32-bit)

Ubuntu (64-bit)


Troubleshooting

Before you use these steps, please note that if you have Javascript disabled in your browser, you will be unable to view Flash content. If you want to check if your Flash plugin is working, go to Adobe's website at http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/.

Sound

If the sound is not working properly after you installed Flash, or you experience these symptoms:

You may want to:

Fonts

Free Software Alternatives

There are two open-source Flash player implementations currently under active development. They are Gnash and Lightspark. (Another is Swfdec though development is almost stopped. In 2009, only 9 commits were made in the git repository).

Lightspark is available from the project's Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/lightspark.

Gnash and Swfdec are available as Ubuntu packages from the Universe repository.

RestrictedFormats/Flash (last edited 2017-09-04 20:30:39 by ckimes)