Thread: Which Adobe Flash Player on Debian to the linux & how ?

My dual boot of Debian and Windows isn’t so Dual anymore. Debian wiped out Windows so now im stuck with Debian for now. Im a BEGINNER with this. And I can’t seem to get adobe Flash player to install. Ive got the right download, and it’s downloaded, but when I open the installation file. It says I can only open it in the Archive Manager. Which then it tells me. Archive File Not Supported. And it’s not giving me any other options to use anything else. In beginners language lol, Please Instruct me on what to do here. Im lost and Ive tried a few different things.

You should search for the file or get it from Adobe downloads for Linux: install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz, which is a gzip'd tar file. Download it to your /home/<user>/Desktop. Then issue the commands:
$ gunzip install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
$ tar -xf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar

This will yield the executable file: libflashplayer.so
Presumably, you are running Firefox for your browser, and if so, do the following:
First:
$ cd
$ cd .mozilla
$ ls
If the directory ~/.mozilla/plugins does not exist then:
$ mkdir plugins
Next, from ~/Desktop directory, move the file libflashplayer.so as follows:
$ cd ~/Desktop
$ mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins.