How to Install Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu 15.04 / 16.04 / 16.10

Adobe Flash player is important plugin that allows our web browsers to play multimedia contents like audio & videos streaming, flash based games and other rich media stuff.

Adobe Flash player is supported by different web browsers like IE ( Internet Explorer), Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera and can be installed on different operating system like Windows , Linux/ UNIX and Mac OS X and Android.

In this post we will discuss how to install adobe flash player on Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 / 16.10. Refer the below steps :

Installation from the Command Line :

Open the terminal and run the below commands

linuxtechi@Linux-world:~$ sudo apt-get update
linuxtechi@Linux-world:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Installation using Synaptic Package Manager :

To use synaptic, make sure synaptic package is installed. In case if it is not installed then use the below command to install :

linuxtechi@Linux-world:~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic

Start the Synaptic Package Manager

Dash Home —-> search —-> Synaptic

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Click on Synaptic Package Manager .

Search “flashplugin installer“, Mark it for installation and then click on Apply .

flashplugin-ubuntu15-synaptic

Once the installation is completed , to verify whether flash player is installed or Not. Visit the Adobe Web site.

http://www.adobe.com/in/software/flash/about/

As we seen that Adobe Flash Player is installed successfully

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16 thoughts on “How to Install Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu 15.04 / 16.04 / 16.10”

  1. Failed to install twice. Ubuntu 15.04 has some bugs but this one is a pain in the neck. I’ve been forced to discard Firefox and use Opera instead not happy.

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  2. hi,I am using ubuntu 15.10..followed the steps to install flash player..i can find the synaptic manager but nothing is happening when i click on synaptic manager …what to do???

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    • Hi ,

      From the terminal first try to install synaptic package using the command “$ sudo apt-get install synaptic” and then try to run “$ sudo synaptic ”

      Once the synaptic Starts and click on Reload option and then search “flashplugin installer”.

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    • Open the synaptic and Click on ‘Relaod’ option to refresh the repository then search “flashplugin installer” and marked it for upgrade

      Hope Above Steps will resolve the issue.

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    • Raj ,

      Refresh your system repository by reloading them, Click on Reload option in Synaptic Package Manager and then search “flashplugin installer” and marked it for upgrade and then click on apply

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  3. This doesn’t work for me. I’ve tried a dozen different ways to install flash, including the adobe instructions in the readme (extract, copy into /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/) and NOTHING is working. Flash is still not installed. (Oh and I’ve enabled flash in Chromium, so that’s not the issue either.)

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  4. What finally worked for me – after two weeks of struggling – was enabling Canonical Partners and getting their flash update as per these instructions: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2339506 Incidentally, should’ve mentioned that I’m running Zorin 12 which uses an Ubuntu 16 core, I believe. So the older directions for flash do not work with the newer Ubuntu/Zorin implementations.

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  5. Adobe Flash player is supported by different web browsers like IE ( Internet Explorer), Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera and can be installed on a different operating system like Windows, Linux/ UNIX and Mac OS X and Android.

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