How do I install flash in to Firefox running with Wine?

Question

I'm using a website called busuu.com, which also let you chat and video chat, but you need Adobe Flash to do so.

I have Ubuntu and I have also Chromiun and I have installed flash, but will not let me use the camera.

I have decided to use Firefox with wine to see if it would work but did not, I could not install flash in to it.

What can I do about this?

my webcam works fine in ubuntu, i have cheese and I take pictures. but im thinking that the problem is the webpage beacause is there where the cam doesn;t work at all. I'm going to try in other webpage. my computer is a dell inpiron mini 10-12. my webcam the original 0.3 megapixels.I have Ubuntu 11.10

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(original from user)

my problema es el siguiente: Soy usuario de una pagina web llamada busuu.com, donde permiten chatear y tambien videochat, pero hay que tener adobe flash para poder hacerlo. en ubuntu tengo chromiun y tengo tambien adobe flash, pero no me permite usar la camara. decidi utilizar firefox con wine con la esperanza de poder hacerlo, pero no tiene el adobe flash plash, he tratado de instalarlo pero no puedo. que debo hacer?

Solution 1

• Step 1

Use this link and download the latest version of flash player for windows.(select windows 7 as your OS) - DOWNLOAD

• Step 2

Now you will get a .exe file and open it with wine to provide flash support to the web browsers you installed inside wine.

This may be the answer for your primary question. But not sure whether your web cam problem will be solved by this

Solution 2

Another way would be using Winetricks.

Flash 11:

winetricks flash11

Flash 10:

winetricks flash

Those commands should automatically download Flash from Adobe and install it into Wine.

If winetricks is not there, you'll have to install it first:

sudo apt-get install winetricks

According to this winetricks bug Firefox might crash after installing flash11, which can be solved by running winetricks vcrun2005.

Important: I posted this answer in case it's useful for someone, but the method doesn't seem to be working right now. winetricks flash11 fails with a "file not found" error, and winetricks flash downloads the installer and then fails with a checksum error (I have winetricks version 20120912, installed from 12.04 repos).

Comments

[BlitZz]

Just wanted to commend Bruno for being helpful and going to the extra length of translating the question. This is much friendlier than just chastising the user for not using english, as I've seen in some questions. Thanks!

[BlitZz]

Alfredo, please give more information about your camera. Hardware support for Wine applications goes through Ubuntu, so if the camera doesn't work in Ubuntu, I think it will also not work on Wine.

[Bruno Pereira]

Does your camera work with Ubuntu? If you use cheese or similar can you verify that the camera is working?

[Ringtail]

I run Ubuntu with firefox installed and with Adobe 11,2,202,197 installed. Works fine here!

[Chathura Widanage]

download 32bit version

[Dmitry Grigoryev]

What is the benefit of installing flash via winetricks, compared to simply running wine install_flash_player.exe?

[mchid]

doesn't work on newest version