Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Update flash plugin in firefox on debian linux

i had an issue where i couldn't watch videos on youtube. i got a message about upgrading the flashplayer in my firefox browser on my debian linux system. after some googling i found the debian wiki page that details how to upgrade the flash plugin for the browser. i executed the following command as root:

update-flashplugin-nonfree --install

if you are behind a proxy like i am the command looks like:

http_proxy=http://myproxy:port update-flashplugin-nonfree --install


info taken from :
https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

also see:
http://tuxmark.blogspot.com/2013/10/flash-not-working-in-firefox-on-linux.html

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It shows command not found on my Debian 7 system.

mark said...

Anonymous,

Is the package flashplugin-nonfree installed? If not, the syntax for aptitude is: "aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree" .