How To Install flashplugin-installer on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flashplugin-installer on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is flashplugin-installer
flashplugin-installer is:
This is a transitional package to ensure that the EOL Flash Player is uninstalled. It can be safely removed.
Package: flashplugin-installer Architecture: amd64 Version: 32.0.0.363ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: multiverse/web Source: flashplugin-nonfree Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Bart Martens [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 59 Provides: flashplugin-nonfree Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, wget, libgtk2.0-0, fontconfig, libxt6, libxext6, libatk1.0-0, libc6, libcairo2, libexpat1, libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libglib2.0-0, libice6, libpango-1.0-0, libsm6, libx11-6, libxau6, libxcursor1, libxdmcp6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxrender1, zlib1g, libnss3, libnspr4, libcurl3 | libcurl3-gnutls, libasound2, update-notifier-common (>= 0.119ubuntu2) Recommends: libasound2-plugins (>= 1.0.16) Suggests: firefox, x-ttcidfont-conf, ttf-mscorefonts-installer, ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree, xfs Conflicts: flashplayer-mozilla, flashplugin (« 6), flashplugin-nonfree (« 11.0.1.152ubuntu1), libflashsupport Breaks: flashplugin-downloader (« 11.1.102.55ubuntu3) Replaces: flashplugin (« 6), flashplugin-downloader (« 11.1.102.55ubuntu3), flashplugin-nonfree (« 11.0.1.152ubuntu1) Filename: pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_32.0.0.363ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 6696 MD5sum: f34a86d8818222cc66411a6ae9b17a60 SHA1: a23bcfd64c001af083a78fb3aafb921b63764457 SHA256: a773eb9ef12ee2d82bd1b5094ab896d36ff761c54608214f1b766f70117ea9f5 Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html Description-en: Adobe Flash Player plugin installer Downloads and Installs the Adobe Flash Player plugin. The Adobe Flash Player plugin supports playing of media and other dynamic content online.
The Adobe Flash Player plugin will work with a range of web-browsers including, limited to:
- Firefox
- Chromium
- SeaMonkey
- Iceweasel
- Iceape
- Galeon
- Epiphany
- Konqueror
WARNING: Installing this Ubuntu package causes the Adobe Flash Player plugin to be downloaded from the Adobe web site. The distribution license of the Adobe Flash Player plugin is available at www.adobe.com. Installing this Ubuntu package implies that you have accepted the terms of that license. Npp-Applications: ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384, 92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a, aa5ca914-c309-495d-91cf-3141bbb04115 Npp-Description: Adobe Flash SWF Player (http://www.adobe.com) Npp-File: libflashplayer.so Npp-Mimetype: application/x-shockwave-flash Npp-Name: Adobe Flash Player (installer)
There are three methods to install flashplugin-installer on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install flashplugin-installer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flashplugin-installer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flashplugin-installer
Install flashplugin-installer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flashplugin-installer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flashplugin-installer
Install flashplugin-installer Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install flashplugin-installer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flashplugin-installer
How To Uninstall flashplugin-installer on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the flashplugin-installer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer
Uninstall flashplugin-installer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flashplugin-installer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flashplugin-installer
Remove flashplugin-installer Configurations and Data
To remove flashplugin-installer configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flashplugin-installer
Remove flashplugin-installer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flashplugin-installer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flashplugin-installer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flashplugin-installer package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.