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.
Installation and usage
The package in unstable http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/flashplugin-nonfree is suitable for Lenny (stable) and Squeeze (testing).
How to update the Adobe Flash Player :
update-flashplugin-nonfree --install
The newest release version of the Adobe Flash Player is 10.1.85.3, and that is, as expected, the version installed on i386. On amd64 the 64 bit preview release 10.2.161.22 is installed.
Supported browsers in Debian
Troubleshooting
Remember that if you need the Flash Player to work with pulse, you can ask libasound to do so in your ~/.asoundrc:
pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse }
To verify the Adobe Flash Player version number installed on your system, access the About Flash Player page, or right-click on content running in Flash Player and select "About Adobe (or Macromedia) Flash Player" from the menu. If you use multiple browsers, perform the check for each browser you have installed on your system. (Source: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html)
External Links
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ - Adobe Flash Player homepage.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html - Adobe Flash Player 10 homepage.
flashplugin-nonfree - flashplugin-nonfree at Debian Packages
flashplugin-nonfree - flashplugin-nonfree at the Debian Package Tracking System
src:flashplugin-nonfree - Bugs in source package flashplugin-nonfree