Problems in installing flash player

Question

I a facing problems in installing flash player. It had got uninstalled while removing other packages. Now whenever I am trying to install the package flashplugin-installer, I am getting the following error:

E: flashplugin-installer: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I have tried installing the package from Adobe website, from the repository and have also tried installing the adobe-flashplugin. I keep getting the same error every time.

Answer 1

To my knowledge, there is no package on the Adobe web site. You download file install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz, move it to a directory by itself, and extract the contents. The contents will ba a file, libflashplayer.so, and a directory, usr.

You copy the .so file to the plugins directory for whatever browser you are using. On my system, using Firefox, that is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Then, you copy the contents of the usr directory to your system's /usr: "sudo cp -r ./usr/* /usr"

Answer 2

Go and look at this link. If you have a broken package it will hogtie your package manager until you dispatch with the problem. I have seen this happen with flash player.