How to install Flash for Firefox 3 beta in Ubuntu
First make sure you have the Adobe Flash plugin installed. It is not packaged with any version of Firefox.
$ sudo update-flashplugin
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
This package of flashplugin-nonfree was made before the Firefox3 pre-releases, so we have to add it to the libraries manually. This method will “link” it from the default install location (not just copy it) so in case you upgrade flashplugin-nonfree in the future, it will be updated for Firefox3 as well.
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
If you are using a different version of Firefox3 than I am (firefox3.0b3) you’ll need to modify that line. To test if it worked go to a flash site such as YouTube.com.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:22 am
sorry but it doesn’t work for me. I do not know why.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:23 am
sorry it work now. i had the firefox installed under another directory. great. thanks for the hand.
February 26th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Thanks nyukkuh.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
You’re welcome, Jesus
February 28th, 2008 at 11:45 am
The gist of this is that the Ubuntu packagers decided to give users the ability to install ff3 alongside ff2, but they did not have the installation script automagically symlink to ff2’s plugins.
ff2 keeps it’s plugins in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
ff3 keeps it’s plugins in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins,
which is itself symlinked to from /usr/lib/firefox-3.0-3.0b3pre/plugins
To solve this, you should more properly link to /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins, and not /usr/lib/firefox-3.0-3.0b3pre/plugins.
CODE:
cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/* . && cd && ls -l /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
March 19th, 2008 at 7:59 am
This worked just fine, thanks. The location of my flash player was somewhere else, but I got the gist of what you shared. So this ended up being the command I ran:
ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b4/plugins/libflashplayer.so
After a quick restart of Firefox 3, I was good to go. Oh, I’m using Fedora 8.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:54 am
I test ff & suiterunner for fun, I have lots of profile directories & flash was screwed (again).
Big thanks
I navigated to each plugin dir I could find and did this
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so ./flashplugin-alternative.so
April 5th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Thanks toobuntu that worked 4 me
April 5th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
It doesn’t work for me at all. I have done what I knew.
File:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
exists. I made symb. links to this file (which is, also, sl to /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin) in the following locations:
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/plugins
but it changed nothing. Does anyone know how to make it work?
April 6th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I asked at mozilla forum and I got a very simple answer - just to go to Adobe site, download *.tar.gz script and install it manually. Now it really works!
April 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Great tip!
When I was wondering if this was some packaging or Ubuntu-specific issue, stumbled across this and fixed the problem in a command-line.
Thanks for sharing.
April 30th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Thanks.It works. I use firefox 3.0b5.
May 4th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Hey, it worked, and I didn’t even have to restart Firefox! (beta5 on Ubuntu Studio 8.04)
May 17th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
try this: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash
it worked for me (Ubintu 8.04)
May 29th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
How do you add it to libraries manually?
June 11th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Thanks
Worked for me with Firefox 3 RC2
Raz
July 26th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
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August 11th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
worked wonders. i’m learning that the linux support forums offer nothing but contempt, that my hope has come from true believers like yourself you take the time to post support like this. thanks very much. btw…it worked in fedora 8…
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
apparently everyone here is having success with there flash problem… but i dont understand anything u guys are saying…. theres no actual directions… just kind of list or sudo etc stuff…
could someone please explain the process?
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
You’re thinking too hard. Enter the commands into a terminal screen. Its that easy.