You can view multimedia content, stream audio and video, as well as execute rich internet applications with minimal fuss. Adobe Flash Player is freeware, meaning you need not pay any money to download or access its features, although you do need to have the proprietary software needed to create the applications you will be viewing and interacting with. This includes vector graphics, browser interactions, desktop applications, animations, mobile applications, and much more. Sudo apt-get install pepflashplugin-installerĪt this point I haven't much other ideas, so let me know if this helps, and other folks - please post comments with suggested edits to my answer.Adobe Flash Player, previously known as Shockwave Flash is a software platform that allow you to access content created on the Adobe Flash platform.
Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skunk/pepper-flash Some people mentioned installing chrome, but if you might not wanna download chrome, then you can try this: As chromebooks are basicaly google's linux distro, peper flash will definitelly be supported, and it should work for other linux distros ,too. Using command line, that would be sudo apt-get install gnashĪnother alternative is pepper flash player which is what google chrome uses. You can easily get them through Ubuntu Software Center, just search for gnash and lightspark respectivelly. Also, these projects will definitelly continue to develop now that the need for alternative flashplayer on Linux systems is more than ever high. They are a pretty decent idea if you want to make your machine free from proprietary software and dive into open source as much as possible. So it the end you should have version 11.2.202.378, which is latest on Adobe website.Īlternatively you can download Ubuntu Restricted Extras in the software center.Īlternatives : Nowadays there are alternatives to Adobe flash player, particularly GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) and Lightspark.
The first one updates apt-get utility so that it knows that new packages are available, and then upgrade, well, upgrades all the packages, which includes flash player among many other things. This should add partner repository to apt utility that you can use to download and update packages. In the command line / terminal sudo add-apt-repository "deb $(lsb_release -sc) partner" To update flash player to newer version you can do the following:
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