Manually download Flash plugin for Firefox

manual_flash_update.md

Manually download Flash plugin for Firefox

If the Debian package flashplugin-nonfree is installed but not functioning you can use the attached script to update the plugin from a link to the tarball.

Usage

Run the script with the default link:

./update_flash.sh

Alternatively, execute the script with your own link to the Flash archive

./update_flash.sh https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/27.0.0.130/flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz

References

1. https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

update_flash.sh

#!/bin/bash
latest_link=https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/27.0.0.130/flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz

if [ -n "$1" ]
  then
    latest_link="$1"
fi

# Download plugin
wget -qO- $latest_link  | sudo tar -C /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ -zxf - libflashplayer.so

# Set correct permissions if download is successful
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
  then
    sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
    sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
fi