


Refresh your software sources when prompted.Click/check the ‘Canonical Partners’ repository.The first thing you need to do is enable the Canonical Partner Repository. The Canonical Partner repository offers some proprietary applications that are free to use but are not open-source. Install Latest Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu 16.04 + Previously, Ubuntu offered a package that would (to cut a long story short) download and extract the Flash player plugin from Google Chrome and pop it in to a directory where other apps could use it. If you use an alternative browser, be it the super-swell Vivaldi, or Mozilla Firefox, you might prefer (or need to) to install the flash plugin separately. You don’t need to tick a box, add a repo, or do anything extra to get it - it’s present, ready to use, out of the box. Google Chrome for Linux comes pre-packaged with the very latest version of the Flash PPAPI (‘pepper’) plugin. The Most Easiest™ way to install Flash on Ubuntu is to install Google Chrome. If You Use Google Chrome You Already Have It You may still need to install Adobe Flash on Ubuntu.Īnd here’s how. Not every website, web service or web app/game has switched to using something newer or more secure. In the years since the snub the web’s reliance on and use of Flash technologies has (thankfully) dwindled.īut that doesn’t mean we live in halcyon days. Adobe began to offer their Flash Player plugin for Linux a couple of months back, 4 years after abandoning the platform.
