["Flash"] > Adobe Flash Player
This wiki page describes how to install the Adobe Flash Player, formerly known as the Macromedia Flash Player, on Debian systems. This page serves as the homepage of the Debian package "flashplugin-nonfree".
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End User License Agreement of the Adobe Flash Player
The newest versions of the Debian package "flashplugin-nonfree" have this warning in the package description:
WARNING: Installing this Debian package causes the Adobe Flash Player to be downloaded from www.adobe.com. The End User License Agreement of the Adobe Flash Player is available at www.adobe.com.
Debian stable - Adobe Flash Player 9
Architecture: i386
To do only once : use the instructions at [#stable-with-backports Combine Debian stable and backports.org], see below on this wiki page (note: flashplugin-nonfree was removed from DebianStable since Etch 4.0r3, as [http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080217 announced]).
How to install flashplugin-nonfree :
apt-get update apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
How to update flashplugin-nonfree :
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
How to update the Adobe Flash Player :
apt-get update apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-nonfree
Debian testing - Adobe Flash Player 9
Architecture: i386 amd64
To do only once : Edit /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/sources.list to allow flashplugin-nonfree from Debian unstable to be installed on your Debian testing system.
How to install flashplugin-nonfree :
apt-get update apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
How to update flashplugin-nonfree :
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
How to update the Adobe Flash Player :
update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
Debian unstable - Adobe Flash Player 9
Architecture: i386 amd64
How to install flashplugin-nonfree :
apt-get update apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
How to update flashplugin-nonfree :
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
How to update the Adobe Flash Player :
update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
Debian experimental - Adobe Flash Player 10
Temporary notice: It doesn't work on amd64, see bug 499043. An ugly workaround is [http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/mkemul.sh available].
Architecture: i386 amd64
To do only once : Edit /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/sources.list to allow flashplugin-nonfree from Debian experimental to be installed on your Debian system.
How to install flashplugin-nonfree :
apt-get update apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
How to update flashplugin-nonfree :
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
How to update the Adobe Flash Player :
update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
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Combine Debian stable and backports.org
Be warned : The resulting system can't be considered plain "stable" anymore.
Import archive's key into apt :
wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -
Edit /etc/apt/preferences or create it. An example of /etc/apt/preferences :
Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 Package: flashplugin-nonfree Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable Pin-Priority: -1 Package: empty-expect Pin: release o=Backports.org archive,a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 500 Package: flashplugin-nonfree Pin: release o=Backports.org archive,a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=now Pin-Priority: 100 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: -1 Package: * Pin: release * Pin-Priority: -1
Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list :
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib
To update the lists of available packages :
apt-get update
That's it. Now your Debian stable system is configured to use flashplugin-nonfree from backports.org as if flashplugin-nonfree were a package in Debian stable itself.
Manual Installation
Some website explains how to install the plugin manually. This is a very bad practice :
- Installing anything manually is a bad idea.
- A vulnerable version could remain installed for a while.
- The file isn't managed by apt/dpkg (so dependencies and conflict aren't handled)
- You can't uninstall the stuffs cleanly (you may forget some traces and/or vulnerable parts).
- One have to reinstall it again and again, especially when new security updates are published.
- Why would you do manually what can be done automatically?
Supported browsers in Debian
- ["Iceweasel"]
[http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/ Epiphany Gecko]
- Galeon
["Opera"] >= 9.50 beta 1
- Konqueror
- ... and more
External Links
[http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/] - Adobe Flash Player 9 homepage.
[http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html] - Adobe Flash Player 10 homepage.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=flashplugin-nonfree