Install Flash Plugin on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

How to Install Flash Plugin on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

This tutorial is going to show you how to Install Flash Plugin on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Flash Plugin is a must have application for Ubuntu users. Flash plugin is required by Firefox and Google Chrome to play rich multimedia contents such as playing YouTube videos etc. In order to install Flash Plugin on Ubuntu 12.10 you can do the following steps.

A. Enable the multiverse repository

Make sure you enable the multiverse repository from Software Sources.

B. Update your system

You can simply close the Software Sources above and reload the repository. Or you can also use this command to update.

sudo apt-get update

C. Install Adobe flash plugin

Install Adobe flash plugin using this command

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libnspr4-0d
Suggested packages:
x-ttcidfont-conf ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
flashplugin-installer libnspr4-0d
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 219 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

When done, check if Flash Plugin correctly installed by typing this address on Firefox.