Install Flash Player on Ubuntu 12.04

The flash player is not coming in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS by default. So in firefox you cannot play flash in the default ubuntu installation. But you can manualy install flash player from a PPA.

Now a days flash is replaced by HTML5. But still for playing video and play some games flash player is a must. HTML 5 is getting adopted in a faster way. Now adobe is dropping linux support of flash player. There are some opensource alternatives to flash called Gnash and Lightspark. Gnash is somewhat stable now and Lightspark is in still alpha stage.

You can install adobe flash player on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in an easy way.

Adobe Flash Player in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Just Open Ubuntu Software Center go for a search  –  ‘adobe flash player‘ – just press install. The flash player package will be downloaded and installed automatically.

Install Ubuntu Restricted Extras in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

There is an official package called ubuntu-restricted-extras. It contants all proprietary softwares/plugins/libraries for ubuntu. MP3, MPEG etc…

Install restricted extras just copy and paste the command in the terminal

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

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Details of Packages in Ubuntu Restricted Extras

• flashplugin-nonfree

  Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

• gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

  FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer

• gstreamer0.10-pitfdll [i386]

  GStreamer plugin for using MS Windows binary codecs

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

  GStreamer plugins from the “bad” set

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse

  GStreamer plugins from the “bad” set (Multiverse Variant)

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

  GStreamer plugins from the “ugly” set

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

  GStreamer plugins from the “ugly” set (Multiverse Variant)

• icedtea-gcjwebplugin

  Java plugin based on IcedTea and gcjwebplugin

• libdvdread3

  library for reading DVDs

• liblame0

  LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder

• msttcorefonts

  Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
  also a virtual package provided by ttf-liberation

• unrar

  Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)

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