In this article we will learn on how to install Adobe Flash Player 11.3 plugin on RHEL 6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 17,16,15,14,13,12 systems using Adobe’s repository with YUM updater tool.

What is Adobe Flash Player?

Adobe Flash Player is an open source cross-platform application for web browsers that is used for streaming multimedia files like audio and video on a computer web browser like Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari etc.

Install Adobe Flash Player in Linux

Flash Player was developed by Macromedia to support and run SWF files, vector, 3D graphics and an embedded scripting languages that are used to stream audio and video. It was the only one application used by over 90% users across the globe and is a common for running games, animations and embedded scripts in the web pages.

Step 1: Installing Adobe Repository

First add the following Adobe repositories for Flash Player based on your Linux systems.

For 32-bit x86 Systems

## For RHEL/CentOS 6-5 - 32-bit x86 ##
# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

## For Fedora 17,16,15,14,13,12 - 32-bit x86 ##
# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

For 64-bit x86_64 Systems

## For RHEL/CentOS 6-5 - 64-bit x86_64 ##
# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

## For Fedora 17,16,15,14,13,12 - 64-bit x86_64 ##
# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Step 2: Updating Adobe Repository

Next, we need to run the following command to update the Adobe’s own YUM repository to install Adobe Flash Player latest version.

# yum update

Step 3: Installing Adobe Flash Player 11.3

Now run the following command to install latest version of Flash Plugin on your Linux systems.

# yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

## Run the below command on RHEL/CentOS 5.8 ##
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper curl

Step 4: Verifying Flash Plugin

Verify, the newly installed Flash Plugin on your favorite web browser and enjoy watching streaming multimedia files.

That’s all for now, enjoy playing games and watching streaming videos on your browser using Flash Player on systems.