How to install 64 bit flash on Red Hat Enterprise Linux x86_64 to use with firefox x86_64 ?

Issue

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Issue

• How do I install Adobe Flash x86_64 to work with firefox x86_64 ?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64

• firefox x86_64

• Adobe Flash plugin x86_64 for Linux

Resolution

• Adobe Flash plugin x86_64 for Linux can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ . Please download Linux yum 64bit package and install the flash plugin as shown below

   $ rpm -Uvh /path/to/adobe-release/x86_64/version/noarch/rpm
   $ yum install flash-plugin.x86_64
  

Comment

• Adobe Flash "Square" plugin x86_64 for Linux requires RHEL5.x86_64 or above to load and run. Flash will fail to load to RHEL4 with the message below

  LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/lib64/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so)]
  

• For further information regarding flash on RHEL, refer How to install flash plugin on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?

• For further information regarding using konqueror, refer How to use firefox mozilla plugins with Konqueror on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?