Linux is open source and Adobe flash is not. Fedora and many Linux patrons don’t much care about closed source software, so you’re left to figure out how to make things like Adobe Flash work. Freak Show to the rescue.
To install Adobe flash, follow these steps:
Open your terminal and change in to your home directory:
cd ~
You probably don’t have wget installed, so install that:
yum install wget
Time out while I rant: Dear Fedora, fuck you. Who the fuck uses any desktop distribution without having wget installed? Also whois isn’t installed by default. Really?
Moving forward, download the rpm for your yum distribution manager:
sudo wget http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Now install the rpm to add it to yum:
sudo rpm -ivh adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Import the repository GPG key:
sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
Update your local yum repositories.
sudo yum update
Install the 64 bit Adobe Flash Plugin
sudo yum -y install flash-plugin
Check if the install was successful. Go to “about:plugins” in Firefox’s address bar and look for “Shockwave Flash”. If installed properly you’ll see:
File: libflashplayer.so
Version: Shockwave Flash 11.0 r1