

Unfortunately this player doesn't actually meet my requirements. The flash player is now ready to run Flash Version 6 swf files. With the player installed it can have a icon put on the desktop by the installer, or can be run using "gflashplayer" tar -xf install_flash_player_6_r79_linux_sa.tar.gunzip install_flash_player_6_r79_linux_sa.tar.gz.The package needs to be uncompressed and then installed: Then download the flash player from: Macromedia Flash Player Download Page. sudo apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2.

The steps required are to fix some pre-requisites using: I'm not sure if this is a requirement for the following steps or not The following explains the steps required to get the flash player working:įirstly I'd already added some additional repositories to the Ubuntu software repository list earlier blog entry on installing software on Ubuntu Linux. Also see At the Theatre: Macromedia Flash MX 2004 on the Stage John Ambulance I've now installed Macromedia Flash Player on Ubunutu.

As we are about to start rehearsals for our next theatre show with Warwickshire St. Mandriva uses the Redhat Package Management format (RPM), as opposed to Ubuntu which is based on the Debian Package Management tools. These are significantly differently because of the package management tools used. Since then I've replaced Mandrake / Mandriva Linux with Ubunutu Linux. The reason that I wanted the full flash player (rather than the Mozilla Firefox browser plug-in), is that I wanted to run some flash animations for a theatre show. Back in September last year I wrote a blog entry on Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Information, using Flash on the Stage.
