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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 :

Supported browsers in Debian


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