How to Install Flash Player on Ubuntu

Adobe Flash Player is an application for viewing animations and video embedded in websites. It is commonly used for streaming video through both traditional web browsers and mobile devices. It also has support for 3D graphics and print-quality text.
Flash Player is proprietary software which must be added as a plugin to web browsers such as Firefox, Opera and Safari. The Adobe website offers the software in a .deb package for Ubuntu and other Debian based operating systems.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• libcurl3

1. Download the latest version of Flash Player from the Adobe Website.
   Click on "Download the Latest Player," and choose ".deb for Ubuntu" from the drop down list.

2. Choose "Save File" from the pop up window.

3. Open a terminal window.
   The terminal window will be found under Applications -> Utilities.

4. Change to the directory where your downloaded file was saved.
   cd Download

5. Install the libcurl3 library.
   sudo apt-get install libcurl3

6. Install the Flash Player.
   sudo dpkg --install install_flash_player_<version>_linux.deb
   Replace <version> with the latest version number.

7. Restart Firefox.

8. Check that Flash Player was installed.
   Type about:plugins in a browser window, and look for the flash player MIME type.