2012년 4월 1일 일요일

Manually upgrading Adobe Flash in Debian Linux

A couple of weeks ago after upgrading Chromium from 15.0.x to 16.0, Chromium complained of an 'outdated'  Flash plugin. I thought that Chrome/Chromium came with its own version of Flash integrated with the browser, but perhaps that's only for Windows? Anyways, we went to the Adobe site for Korea and downloaded the latest flash tarball (they don't offer .deb package files, although they do have .rpm and .yum packages). We then extracted just libflashplayer.so and copied it to the following 2 locations:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins (this applies if you happen to have firefox/iceweasel installed)

After installation, you can check what version of flash you have installed by visiting Adobe's flash test page. The Debian repositories also has a package called flashplayer-mozilla that installs flashplayer, but the most recent version available in Debian Testing is flash 11.1.102.63-0 vs. 11.2.xxx available as a binary download from Adobe.