Though Adobe flash is getting less and less popular with the rise of HTML5 for online video content, it is still an integral part of the web. Adobe pushes security updates to its 11.2.202.XXX version of flashplayer even though it has pledged it to newer version numbers Popular Linux distros offer easy ways to install and update the non-free Adobe flash plugin.

For example Ubuntu lets you install Flash through a package called '. Similarly Linux Mint offers '.

The problem with these install scripts is that they don't work well when you are behind a company or university's proxy settings (sometimes even after you set your proxy environment according to ). The way to setup proxy to your wget is given and.

But even after trying those, my mintupdate-flash was not able to fetch the latest flash though it informed me of an update that is available (on my Linuxmint Debian Edition install). So I had to resort to installing it manually by downloading the binary from Adobe's website. The method I followed was pretty much based on this as per user IgnitE's post. This also tells us how to install flashplayer for Debian based distros. I'll summarize what I did to install Adobe flashplayer from Adobe's website and it works for an update as well as a fresh install of flashplayer from Adobe directly. First go to Abode, choose the updated version as.tar.gz version.

Go to this page and select the option.tar.gz for other Linux. Download the. Select.tar.gz for Linux option as shown. How do I install Adobe Flash Player on. Hi, I've downloaded the file install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz from the flash download page. The instructions say: Click the download link to. Apr 29, 2013 hi. I had downloaded adobe flash player for ubuntu12.10 (install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz) please help me to install this tar file. Read tech specs and system requirements required to install flash player on windows, mac and linux. Contact Adobe We're here to help; Download.

Make sure you choose the 64-bit version or 32-bit version according to the Linux installation you have. The download usually goes to the Downloads folder in your home directory(~). Make a directory under ~/Downloads to place the untarred files. Sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/browser/plugins Restart the browser and you have the latest flash installed, check it by right clicking flash content or by clicking Apart from this you can get the Google updated by installing Google Chrome. But for now, I would prefer to use the flashplugin provided by Adobe in Firefox and Chromium. PS. Ffplay Xbox 360. : The problem of mintupdate for flash was not due to wget proxy problem, but due to the fact that due to heavy usage.