source: archive/flashplayer.xml

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY flashplayer-npapi-download-http   "https://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/flashplayer/pdc/&flashplayer-version;/flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY flashplayer-npapi-md5sum          "8727e83fe43314a452517988a29d9599">
  <!ENTITY flashplayer-npapi-size            "8.6 MB">

  <!ENTITY flashplayer-npapi32-download-http "https://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/flashplayer/pdc/&flashplayer-version;/flash_player_npapi_linux.i386.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY flashplayer-npapi32-md5sum        "5a2aa19ef95da1f705d593ba53c7e004">
  <!ENTITY flashplayer-npapi32-size          "8.2 MB">

  <!ENTITY flashplayer-ppapi-download-http   "https://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/flashplayer/pdc/&flashplayer-version;/flash_player_ppapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY flashplayer-ppapi-md5sum          "1f0d9d09c741e83ba0488670f44f61dd">
  <!ENTITY flashplayer-ppapi-size            "9.1 MB">

  <!ENTITY flashplayer-ppapi32-download-http "https://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/flashplayer/pdc/&flashplayer-version;/flash_player_ppapi_linux.i386.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY flashplayer-ppapi32-md5sum        "46685a66f29c9d07ad1abc0eca0a7780">
  <!ENTITY flashplayer-ppapi32-size          "8.2 MB">

  <!ENTITY chromium-launcher-download-http   "https://github.com/foutrelis/chromium-launcher/archive/v5.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY chromium-launcher-md5sum          "57086ccab3a6a1a0d2c8a809edd3add2">
  <!ENTITY chromium-launcher-size            "8 KB">
]>

<sect1 id="flashplayer" xreflabel="Flash Player-&flashplayer-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="flashplayer.html"?>


  <title>Flash Player-&flashplayer-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="flashplayer">
    <primary sortas="a-Flash Player">Flash Player</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Flash Player</title>

    <para><application>Flash Player</application> is a multi-platform client
    runtime to view and interact with SWF content, distributed as a browser
    plugin for both NPAPI (Gecko and WebKit) and PPAPI (Blink) based
    browsers.</para>

    &lfs81_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Downloads</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">NPAPI plugin for Gecko (Mozilla) and WebKit 64-bit</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&flashplayer-npapi-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &flashplayer-npapi-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &flashplayer-npapi-size;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">NPAPI plugin for Gecko (Mozilla) and WebKit 32-bit</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&flashplayer-npapi32-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &flashplayer-npapi32-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &flashplayer-npapi32-size;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">PPAPI plugin for Blink (QTWebEngine and Chromium) 64-bit</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&flashplayer-ppapi-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &flashplayer-ppapi-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &flashplayer-ppapi-size;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">PPAPI plugin for Blink (QTWebEngine and Chromium) 32-bit</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&flashplayer-ppapi32-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &flashplayer-ppapi32-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &flashplayer-ppapi32-size;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Chromium Launcher (required for Chromium)</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&chromium-launcher-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &chromium-launcher-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &chromium-launcher-size;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <note><para>Download this file via wget as:</para>
<screen><userinput>wget &chromium-launcher-download-http; \
     -O chromium-launcher-v5.tar.gz</userinput></screen>
    </note>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Flash Player Dependencies (NPAPI)</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
      <xref linkend="curl"/>,
      <xref linkend="graphite2"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
      <xref linkend="pcre"/>,
      <xref linkend="mesa"/>, and
      <xref linkend="nss"/>, 
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (runtime)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="epiphany"/>,
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="firefox"/>,
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="libreoffice"/>,
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="midori"/>,
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="seamonkey"/>, and
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="thunderbird"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Flash Player Dependencies (PPAPI)</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (runtime)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="chromium"/> (required if installing
      <application>Chromium Launcher</application>) or
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="qupzilla"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/flashplayer"/></para>

  </sect2>


  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Flash Player</title>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">NPAPI Plug-in Installation (Mozilla and WebKit)</bridgehead>
    <para>Install the <application>Flash Player</application> NPAPI plugin by
    running the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir flashplayer &amp;&amp;
cd flashplayer    &amp;&amp;
case $(uname -m) in
    x86_64) tar -xf ../flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
    ;;
    i?86)   tar -xf ../flash_player_npapi_linux.i386.tar.gz
    ;;
esac</userinput></screen>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
    user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -vdm755 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &amp;&amp;
install -vm755 libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so &amp;&amp;
install -vm755 usr/bin/flash-player-properties /usr/bin &amp;&amp;
install -vm644 usr/share/applications/flash-player-properties.desktop \
               /usr/share/applications &amp;&amp;
for size in 16 22 24 32 48
do
    install -vdm755 usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/ &amp;&amp;
    install -vm644 usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/flash-player-properties.png \
                   /usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps
done &amp;&amp;
update-desktop-database</userinput></screen>

<bridgehead renderas="sect3">PPAPI Plug-in Installation (QTWebEngine and Chromium)</bridgehead>
    <para>Install the <application>Flash Player</application> PPAPI plugin by
    running the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir flashplayer &amp;&amp;
cd flashplayer    &amp;&amp;
case $(uname -m) in
    x86_64) tar -xf ../flash_player_ppapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
    ;;
    i?86)   tar -xf ../flash_player_ppapi_linux.i386.tar.gz
    ;;
esac</userinput></screen>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
    user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -vdm755 /usr/lib/PepperFlash &amp;&amp;
install -vDm755 libpepflashplayer.so /usr/lib/PepperFlash/ &amp;&amp;
install -vm644 manifest.json /usr/lib/PepperFlash/</userinput></screen>

<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Chromium Lanucher Installation</bridgehead>

    <para><application>Chromium Lanucher</application> is a wrapper for
    <application>Chromium</application> that adds the PeppperFlash installation
    path and plug-in flags to the <application>Chromium</application> command
    line if the PPAPI plugin is found at runtime. Install <application>Chromium
    Launcher</application> with the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>tar -xf chromium-launcher-5.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
cd chromium-launcher-5             &amp;&amp;
make PREFIX=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
    user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/chromium /usr/bin/chromium-orig &amp;&amp;
make PREFIX=/usr install-strip</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>/usr/bin/chromium</seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so and/or
        /usr/lib/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so</seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/PepperFlash</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>