For ages now I haven’t had the Adobe plug-in for Firefox installed. It’s popped up (as it does) numerous times to ask me if I’d like to install it, but as I go through the process, it doesn’t work.
Since WordPress.com has decided to show it’s blog stats with adobe now, I thought it was time to try it another way. The manual install. I guess this is a ‘how to manually install adobe plug in in firefox’ post. I guess I should have named it that…
I go the package from the adobe site, and downloaded the .tar.gz file.
Once it was downloaded, I opened it in archive manager, and extracted the files. I extracted them into my home folder, as this is the easiest place to access from the terminal.
In the terminal I typed:
:~$ ls
Desktop firefox Flock Blog Posts Pictures
Documents Firefox_wallpaper.png gtwitter.exe thunderbird
Examples flock install_flash_player_9_linux
:~$ cd install_flash_player_9_linux
:~/install_flash_player_9_linux$ ./flashplayer-installer
Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved.
Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.
You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as a non-root user.
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in your home directory.
Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/
To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.
To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.
I pressed enter, and basically just said ‘yes’ or the equivalent, any time it asked me for the remainder of the installation.
DON’T have firefox open while you do this. If you do have it open, then close it when it prompts you later in the installation.
Now it will be installed, and all you have to do is open mozilla and check! I went to this site to check it out.
