RHEL 6 / CentOS 6: Install Adobe Flash Player For Firefox Browser

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To install Adobe Flash Player on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 or CentOS 6 for the Firefox browser, you can follow these steps:

  1. Install the required dependencies:
$ sudo yum install nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl
  1. Download the Adobe Flash Player for Linux from the official Adobe website:
$ wget https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/27.0.0.187/flash-player-27.0.0.187-release.x86_64.rpm
  1. Install the Adobe Flash Player RPM package:
$ sudo rpm -Uvh flash-player-27.0.0.187-release.x86_64.rpm
  1. Configure the nspluginwrapper:
$ sudo nspluginwrapper -v -i /usr/lib64/flash-player-27.0.0.187/libflashplayer.so
  1. Restart your Firefox browser.

That’s it! You should now have Adobe Flash Player installed on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or CentOS 6 system for use with the Firefox browser. To verify that Flash is working correctly, you can visit a website that requires the Adobe Flash plugin, such as the official Adobe Flash Player test page.

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