Installing adobe flash player on fedora 27

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The Official way to install flash on any version of Fedora is to install the Adobe yum/dnf repository. This can be done browsing https://get.adobe.com/en/flashplayer/ and installing the "adobe-release" package.

Then:

• For firefox or any NPAPI enabled browser:

  sudo dnf install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  sudo dnf install flash-plugin

• For chromium or any PPAPI enabled browser:

  sudo dnf install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
  sudo dnf install flash-player-ppapi

Because there is now a native and modern NPAPI flash plugin, there is no more the need to use the freshplayerplugin wrapper. (which allows to use the PPAPI plugin within firefox or any NPAPI enabled browser). This package can be removed.

sudo dnf remove freshplayerplugin -y

Please note that using the Adobe repository is on the safe side for using known third parties repository for Fedora. https://rpmfusion.org/FedoraThirdPart...

You can get it from adobe web site/

Select the yum version and when installing the downloaded rpm, you will get a new repository where you can just use dnf to install and update flash. There are new updates on the repository released regularly.

Current version is flash-plugin-27.0.0.187-release

Flash is dying, slowly but surely. Until it is completely dead I personally use Google Chrome for all "Adobe Flash needs" since it has Flash support built-in.

You can download Google Chrome from https://www.google.com/chrome/index.html , select RPM version. After it is downloaded simply install it with:

sudo dnf install Downloads/google-chrome...

Adapt command to match exact path to Google Chrome package.