How to install Adobe Flash Player on Kali Linux in 5 Steps ?

How to install Adobe Flash Player on Kali Linux in 5 Steps?

Adobe® Flash® Player is a lightweight browser plug-in and rich Internet application runtime that delivers consistent and engaging user experiences, stunning audio/video playback, and exciting gameplay.

Installed on more than 1.3 billion systems, Flash Player is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content.

Kali Linux comes with Iceweasel (Firefox) as an installed browser. For some reason, the producers of Kali Linux missed one thing, the vital Adobe Flash Player plugin.

To install Adobe Flash player in 5 Steps :

1. go to : http://www.get.adobe.com/flashplayer


2. select .tar.gz for other Linux from the drop down list and click on Download now.


3. once the file is downloaded, open terminal window and go to the location of downloaded file and check if the file is available in terminal window using ls command.


4. Type root@kali:~# tar –xf install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz in the terminal window to extract the file.


5. Type root@kali:~# mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ to copy the files.

Adobe Flash Player has now been installed! You can also delete all the Flash Player folders/files in your root folder, they’re not important.

Watch the video tutorial for more explanations :

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