Linux Mint 17 & Firefox Flash Player Update
Ever since Linux Mint 17.1 updated Firefox to version 38.0, the flash player plugin has stopped working, and displays a dire warning about the plugin being out of date. Adobe does have updates available, but the APT download apparently points to an invalid repository. Here is how to install the current latest version of the flash player for Firefox:
First, go here:
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
to download the latest version... we want the "tar.gz file for other linux". It should detect if you have a 32 or 64 bit system. My example is for an i386 (32 bit) machine, so I downloaded "install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz".
Go to the folder you downloaded file to in a terminal window and issue the following command:
Code:
tar -xf install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
When that is complete, you need to copy the .so file to your Firefox plugins directory. In Linux Mint 17.1, this is the proper command:
Code:
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Enter your password, then restart Firefox if necessary. It worked perfectly here. Solution found here in the Mint forums, about 2/3 of the way down the page:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=185097
Other distributions may require a different installation method, so far only tested this on the one machine.
