Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 is Released

Adobe has just released Flayer Player 10.1 Beta 2 for 32-bit Linux Machines. I'm enjoying the improvements over the Ubuntu repository version and the 10.1 Beta that was released back in mid-November. Flash is still far from prefect, but at least it's getting better.

- To install Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 in Linux:
First remove your current version of flash
If you are using the Ubuntu repository version of Flash
in a terminal:

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer

- If you are using the Flash Player 10.1 Beta

rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

- Download Flash 10.1 Beta 2

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_1_p2_linux_121709.tar.gz

- Untar flashplayer10_1_p2_linux_121709.tar.gz

tar -zxvf flashplayer10_1_p2_linux_121709.tar.gz

- Then create a plugin folder in the .mozilla configuration folder

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins

(you can skip this step if your are upgrading from the 10.1 Beta guide I wrote)

- Point the terminal into the newly decompressed file

cd ~/install_flash_player_10_linux

- Install the flash player 10.1 Beta 2 plugin

mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

- To remove Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 and reinstall Ubuntu's repository version of flash

rm -r ~/.mozilla/plugins

then:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

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