Find and install the latest Flash plugin debug for Ubuntu

flash-debug.sh

#!/bin/sh -e
# Find the latest Flash plugin debug for Linux and install it removing the standard plugin first.
#
# Usage: curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/wernight/a3c1e30a3c64e350197f/raw/8c49f7c521a9ccb215edcdf9696642f37edbbb08/flash-debug.sh | sh

echo "Finding latest version from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html"
flash_download=$(curl --silent http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html | grep -Po '(?<=")http[^"]*flashplayer_\d+_plugin_debug[^"]*\.tar\.gz(?=")' | head -n 1)

echo "Found and extracting $flash_download"
tmp_dir=/tmp/flashplayer_plugin_debug
if [ -d $tmp_dir ]
then
  rm -rf $tmp_dir
fi
mkdir $tmp_dir
curl -0 "$flash_download" | tar xzC $tmp_dir

echo "Removing existing Flash plugin for Firefox"
sudo killall --quiet -9 firefox && sleep 1 || true
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash* ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash* /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash* /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*

echo "Installing debug plugin for Firefox"
sudo cp $tmp_dir/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
sudo chmod +rx /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

echo "Cleaning up $tmp_dir"
rm -rf $tmp_dir