how to install the Adobe Flash Player, formerly known as the Macromedia Flash Player, on Debian systems.

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 5.0 ‘Lenny’ : Flash Player 10

Architecture: i386, amd64

Configure your system to use lenny-backports by adding this line tou your sources.list

deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

as described here: http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions . Be warned : The resulting system can’t be considered plain “stable” anymore.

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 :

/usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree –install

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
}

It took me a long time to find this easy one! In fact, Flash10 is using alsa…

Debian 4.0 ‘Etch’ : Flash Player 9

Architecture: i386, amd64

Configure your system to use etch-backports as described here: http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions . Be warned : The resulting system can’t be considered plain “oldstable” anymore.

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 : Flash Player 10

Architecture: i386 amd64

To do only once : Make sure your APT sources (/etc/apt/sources.list) allow flashplugin-nonfree from contrib to be installed.

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

64 bit or 32 bit on amd64

Etch (oldstable): The 32 bit version of Adobe Flash Player 9 is installed. On amd64 the 32 bit plugin is accessed via nspluginwrapper, and the 32 bit plugin uses libraries made available in the packages ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk.

Lenny (stable), Squeeze (testing), Sid (unstable): The 32 bit version of Adobe Flash Player 10 is installed on i386. The 64 bit version of Adobe Flash Player 10 (still in Adobe labs) is installed on amd64. Users of amd64 who prefer to use the 32 bit version of Adobe Flash Player 10 can install a browser and the 32 bit plugin in an i386 chroot as well described in the AMD64 HOWTO.

Supported browsers in Debian

• Iceweasel
• Epiphany Gecko
• Galeon
• Opera >= 9.50 beta 1
• Konqueror
• … and more