Problems installing Adobe Flash Player from tar.gz file

[capt-zero]

SteveRiley,

Well, unfortunately Flash-Aid didn't help either. However I did try Rekong and for some odd reason it does play PBS videos. I don't think much of it as a browser, but I guess I can stand it for a little in order to keep up with some of my favorite PBS shows. So I guess I'll mark this thread as solved (shame we don't have a SOLVED sorta option). I appreciate your assistance very much though, as always you've gone the extra mile to assist.

thanx,
capt-zero

[Detonate]

Plugins for FF are stored in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

[agkaiser]

from readme in "latest" plugin tar.gz
Installing using the plugin tar.gz:
o Unpack the plugin tar.gz and copy the files to the appropriate location.
o Save the plugin tar.gz locally and note the location the file was saved to.
o Launch terminal and change directories to the location the file was saved to.
o Unpack the tar.gz file. Once unpacked you will see the following:
+ libflashplayer.so
+ /usr
o Identify the location of the browser plugins directory, based on your Linux distribution and Firefox version
o Copy libflashplayer.so to the appropriate browser plugins directory. At the prompt type:
+ cp libflashlayer.so <BrowserPluginsLocation>
o Copy the Flash Player Local Settings configurations files to the /usr directory. At the prompt type:
+ sudo cp -r usr/* /usr
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after trying libflashlayer.so in existing 'likely' directories I noticed the "plugins" dir was missing.
created dir plugins in /home/"username"/.mozilla/
/home/greg/.mozilla/plugins/
copied libflashlayer.so to plugins.
It works for me.

[Durhamhs]

Flash -Aid add-on has been removed!

[Guest]

Looks almost fine, except I see that the config files from flashplugin-installer remain lurking about. So let's restore to a pristine condition and reinstall.

First:

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer adobe-flashplugin adobe-flash-properties-gtk adobe-flash-properties-kde
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
sudo update-alternatives --remove-all mozilla-flashplugin
rm -rfv ~/.macromedia
rm -rfv ~/.adobe

Next, close all your browsers.

Then:

sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin adobe-flash-properties-kde

Finally, restart Firefox. Now, in Add-ons | Plugins, do you see "Shockwave Flash"?

Thank You VERY MUCH Mr. SteveRiley!
ONLY YOUR advice worked for me among about dozen alternative suggestions in my problem, meaning - BBC-News videos suddenly stopped working few days ago. Now, after YOUR advice it works JUST FINE!. Once more, Thank You! Without your kind of people we "ordinary" PC-users would be in deep trouble at times.

[SteveRiley]

I'm glad it worked for you.

However, since Adobe has completely dropped support for Flash in Linux, and since we should not expect for any Linux apps to continue to work with Flash, there will come a point in time when we can no longer consume Flash content.