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Flash player for Ubuntu 9.04

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I was about to download Adobe Flash Player for my Mozilla in Ubuntu 9.04, but it asked me which version of Flash Player (among 4-5). I'm clueless and a Linux newbie.

Thanks for your help, Dave

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Larry Jordan (larryjor) said : 		#1

    Mozilla's homepage has a download link for Flash Player 9 and strongly recommends it (http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Flash). I searched for it and found it is available as an add-on package from their site at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7 where they have posted a download button for it and instructions for installing and enabling it.

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Larry Jordan (larryjor) said : 		#2

     Although you should be able to install this from the Synaptic Package manager anyway....

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olyduck (olyduck) said : 		#3

I downloaded Adobe Flash Plugin 10 from the Package manager, but the website I am trying to use (Photoshop.com) still says I need Flash Player. I've close and re-opened Firefox. Do I need to re-boot LINUX for the Flash Plug-in to work?

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olyduck (olyduck) said : 		#4

Also, at the Flash site, it gives me the download options of: yum, .tar.gz, .rpm or .deb for Ubuntu 8.04+ . Which one should I use?

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LinuxUbuntugeek (clarke121) said : 		#5

Go to a webpage that has Flash content

For example
http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/enable_compizfusion_in_ubuntu_feisty/

In the top right hand corner you will be prompted to install the Flash plugin.

Click on that and there will be several options. Select the Adobe option then enter your password and the installer will take care of the rest.

Once Flash is installed restart Firefox.

LUg.

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