I have searched through a variety of resources (both here and elsewhere) and cannot find anything constructive or concrete on installing flash player for elementary 5.1. I was wondering if anyone (surely someone must have done it - and it's probably trivially easy) has any advice on this.
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sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ bionic partner"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin
The adobe-flashplugin includes support for both CHromium and Firefox.
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In elementary OS,
lsb_release -scoutputshera. When using this command in conjuction withadd-apt-repository, you're going to end up with bad ppa's in the sources list. For example, your command above results inE: The repository 'http://archive.canonical.com hera Release' does not have a Release file.So please edit your answer and replace$(lsb_release)withbionic, since elementary OS 5.1 is based on Ubuntu 18.04.– VladCommented Feb 24, 2020 at 10:29 -
That's my bad. Wasn't really thinking about that. :p– user20763Commented Feb 24, 2020 at 10:36
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Also, I've put the answer as community wiki. It'll need updating once eOS updates to the next LTS release which I'll probably forget/not be here for.– user20763Commented Feb 24, 2020 at 10:46
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I've given it a shot, and the terminal returns the error that the command
add-apt-repositorywasn't found. Any ideas?– ejb57Commented Feb 24, 2020 at 21:20
This has instructions for setting up add-apt-repository: https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-add-apt-repository-in-ubuntu/
