INSTALLING FLASH PLUG-IN

The Flash plugin is simple. All you need to do is download the correct file for your machine, install the file, and then copy libflashplayer.so to your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. Let’s stick with the rpm-type file.

Download the flash-plugin-XXX.i386.rpm file (Where XXX is the release number) and then issue (as root) the command rpm -ivh flash-plugin-XXX.rpm (again, where XXX is the release number) to install flash-plugin.

As before, you are going to have to locate the correct file in order to copy it to the plugins directory. Issue the command locate libflashplayer.so. You should see this in your results:

/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

Change to the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory and run (as root):

cp /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /home/USERNAME/.mozilla/pugins (where USERNAME is the actual username).

Now, you need to change ownership of the file so it can be used by a non-root user. Do this with the command (run as root from within the /home/USERNAME/.mozilla/plugins directory — where USERNAME is the actual name of the standard user):

chown USERNAME.USERNAME libflashplayer.so.

Restart Firefox and run the command about:plugins