Install Adobe Flash Player 9 on OpenSolaris 11.2008
I have just installed the newest version of OpenSolaris on my laptop, and now I’m going through the installation of the ‘be-or-not-to-be’ software, I have noticed that the OS 11 has a nice package manager, but I couldn’t find the flash player on it. Here you have a short and easy instructions on how to install flash player on your best of the best opensolaris box:
1. Go to any page where you expect flash contant (e.g www.youtube.com)
2. Click the ‘install flash player’, unfortunatelly it’s not that easy (the reason I’m writing this post) but you can download it on you desktop. If this for some reason doesn’t work (I got some security errors, just use wget to get the file – wget already installed 🙂 ).
3. Un-gzip it.
4. change to root on the console (su -)
5. copy the libflashplayer.so to the /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory
6. restart the firefox
7. Enjoy flash movies!! 🙂
Good luck!
Or go to http://pkg.sun.com/register, and get a certificate to access the Extra Software repository–which has Adobe Flash Player.
Then
$ pfexec pkg install flash
or use the Package Manager…
nice one, thanks!
Thanks for the post it helped a solaris newbie alot
Thanks, this worked great. One note though, I had to reboot the OS to get Flash to start working, not just Firefox itself.
yeha its working ……..
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