how to install flash player on suse

**scuba_tison** · 10-16-2009

i am new to linux and i have suse. i keep getting the message that i need a plugin and flash player to watch videos on hulu. i download it from the adobe site but i do not know what to do next. i am a windows user and i assume that there is an installer program to install it but i do not know what it is.

can you help me?

**reed9** · 10-16-2009

Are you using Suse or OpenSuse? Which version? I was under the impression that Adobe Flash comes installed with OpenSuse.

This will show you if flash is installed somewhere already

Code:

rpm -qa | grep flash

In general you should install software through your package manager.
YaST/Modules/Software Management - openSUSE

You should be able to find the Flash Player using that.

**scuba_tison** · 10-17-2009

thanks for the reply
first of all am using suse open
i ran the command that you gave and it came back with
flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release
but when i go to hulu it said that i need missing plugin to watch show.
i run the plugin search on mozilla and it said that i need flash player but when i ran the install search it said that i have to manualy install it which i do not know how to do.

can you help me?

**waterhead** · 10-17-2009

Did you follow the instructions from Adobe?

Adobe - Flash Player 10: Installation instructions

I'm not sure which version is the best for openSUSE. Even though it uses rpm's for package installation, the one offered may be for Red Hat/Fedora. You may be best off using the tar.gz version.

Adobe - Adobe Flash Player

**D-cat** · 10-20-2009

There's a few things to check out. First, make sure you have the non-oss repository installed and enabled in Yast:

http://download.opensuse.org/distrib.../repo/non-oss/

If the Adobe flash player 10 is checked and installed as according to Yast Software Management, check your browser.

In Firefox, you'd do this by typing about:plugins in the address bar.
You should see something like:

Code:

Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

MIME Type 			Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes

If there's a different file name or lower version handling flash (swf), then there's something getting in the way (like the free swfdec package which doesn't handle video very well).

If no flash handling plugin is listed, then we'll need to track it down and place an appropriate symlink in your browser's plugin directory.

BTW: what browser are you using?

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