Adobe Flash Player 9 Beta For Linux Released

[niniendowarrior]

The plugin doesn't load on Opera but I'm cool with that.

It loads on Firefox and that's enough for me.

[ltmon]

Installation for Ubuntu

Do the following to install on (K)Ubuntu 6.06 if you already have Flash 7 installed:

tar xvjf FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz
cd flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

This got it working straight away for Firefox and Konqueror.

My biggest issue so far is that I couldn't get it to print: it simply pops up a javascript "Your print job has been sent to the default printer" and nothing else happens. I guess no real print dialogue has been implemented... or possibly I'm missing some sort of dependency for it.

If I can get this working acceptably then our company's clients can save some $$$ in Windows licences when we set up a kiosk/POS application for them.

L.

[Michael]

Here are some shots of the standalone Adobe Flash Player 9 running on Fedora Core 5. One apparent bug I have run into is a multitude of issues with YouTube and the standalone player -- seem to be presented with ALSA conflicts and then it ultimately will crash.

[Michael]

Adobe has released the public's first Beta of the Linux Flash Player 9!

Penguin.SWF Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2...a_is_live.html

DOWNLOAD: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

Release Notes: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/f...easenotes.html

Be sure to share your Linux Flash Player 9 experiences. Some previous information can be found in this thread.

Edit: No word on x86_64 support with this release.