February 4, 2014

Install Flashplayer on RHEL 6

Download

Download the plug-in for Linux 64-bit (tar.gz) from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/.

Install

Move the tar file to /tmp and extract it.

$ mv /home/magnus/Downloads/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz /tmp/

$ cd /tmp

$ tar xvfz install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz

Before proceeding close you web browser. Then move the flash player module to Firefox plugin directory.

$ cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

$ chmod 0755 -v /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
mode of `/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so' changed to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)

Test

Start Firefox and test against any youtube video.

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