Adobe has stopped the development of flash for Linux which means that only bug and security fixed are applied. For an unknown reason my last "yum update" just broke my flash support and ability to watch YouTube video.
The alternative is to use Pepper Flash which is flash wrapper to the Google Chrome flash plugin. Google continues to support flash for linux by shipping the plugin inside Chrome.
Haven't found any detailed tutorial for Fedora so here it goes.
Pre-requisites
# rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-11.2.202.451-1.fc20.R.x86_64
Installation
Exit any Firefox processes.
Install Pepper Flash Repositories :
Install Pepper Flash Repositories :
# yum install http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/russianfedora/russianfedora/free/fedora/russianfedora-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# yum install http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/russianfedora/russianfedora/nonfree/fedora/russianfedora-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
Install Chromium :
Install Pepper Flash :
Install FreshPlayer :
# yum clean all && yum install chromium
Install Pepper Flash :
# yum install chromium-pepper-flash.x86_64
Install FreshPlayer :
# yum install freshplayerplugin.x86_64
Start Firefox, go to the "Add on" configuration menu, you should now have two "Shockwave Flash" plugins. One is the official Adobe Plugin (old version 11.x), the other one is Pepper Flash plugin (up to date version) binded to libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so. Check they a both activated.
Finally go to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and check that you are using the up to date version.
Hopefully you can play Youtube videos and other flash based sites.
Hope that helps !
Finally go to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and check that you are using the up to date version.
Hopefully you can play Youtube videos and other flash based sites.
Hope that helps !