How to Install FlashPlayer on Ubuntu 18.04
To Install FlashPlayer on Ubuntu 18.04
Flash is a plug-in for your web browser that allows you to watch videos and use interactive web pages on some websites. While HTML5, which is a more modern solution, is increasingly offered, there are still some websites which won' t work without Flash. It is so simple and easy to install FlashPlayer and in this tutorial, the method to install FlashPlayer on Ubuntu 18.04 is covered.
Installation
Let' s First Start with updating the system repositories
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
As the flash plugin is available in the default repository of Ubuntu 18.04 you can install as follows
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install flashplugin-installer -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20180508.1.orig.tar.gz [30.5 MB]
Fetched 30.5 MB in 1min 4s (479 kB/s)
Installing from local file /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20180508.1.orig.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
Setting up libpangox-1.0-0:amd64 (0.0.2-5) ...
Setting up libpango1.0-0:amd64 (1.40.14-1) ...
Setting up flashplugin-installer (29.0.0.171ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Now access your web browser and type the following URL of http://isflashinstalled.com/
It will show an installation status of the flash player plugin
Now we have to check it out the Flash player in an Add-ons manager
With this, the method to Install FlashPlayer on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.
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