How to install flash player for firefox

Many Backtrack users have a difficulty on how to install flash player for Firefox. In order to that, you will need first of all to purge the current flash player by going through these steps:

root@bt:~# apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla
root@bt:~# rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
root@bt:~# rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
root@bt:~# rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
root@bt:~# rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*so
root@bt:~# rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

The next step is to download the new flash player from the official website: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?no_redirect (download the tar.gz file)

Now we move to the installation:

root@bt:~# mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins

root@bt:~# mkdir flash

root@bt:~# mv -f install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz flash/

root@bt:~# cd flash/

root@bt:~/flash# tar xvfz install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz 

root@bt:~/flash# cp -f libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Now, everything is ok, you can test now by playing a youtube video for example.


          This tutorial is done with reference to: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Install_Flash_Player