Ubuntu & Macromedia Shockwave

Submitted by romicerne on Fri, 2006-01-27 23:41.

Hello! I need to install macromedia shockwave... Do you know something similar? I am an inexpert one! Sorry, but my english is very bad. Thanks Romina

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Submitted by Neil Pope on Sat, 2006-01-28 21:24.

Flash for i386 To add Flash Player support for konqueror, mozilla, firefox, epiphany and other browsers, enable the multiverse repository and, in a terminal, type: for Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary) sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree for Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) sudo apt-get install flashplayer-mozillaHope this is of use.

Submitted by dotmil on Sun, 2006-01-29 14:29.

Yes that will cover playing Flash, but Shockwave is (IIRC) Windows only.

Submitted by W7DAH on Tue, 2006-09-19 12:33.

Apparently my English must be very bad as well ... I periodically return to TRY a Linux distribution but seldom stay for very long exactly because of such non-sensical command line strings as described for getting an otherwise simple browser plug-in loaded. Sheez.

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Submitted by leenix on Wed, 2006-09-20 14:41.

You can also use synaptic package manager ( in System->Administration ) and do a dearch for "flash" then look for packages like flash-mozilla plugin. Again, you'll have to enable all repositories. (One of the menu items at the top of Synaptic is for repository management) enable Multiverse at least. HTH LeeNIX


Submitted by timmyhawky on Fri, 2007-01-12 20:14.

Hi, i followed the intructions you gave, but it is a Flash player(no shockwave), it doesen't play much things, and killed my Adobe Flash installation!Can i roll back this?

Submitted by Khaled_Khalil on Sat, 2007-01-13 11:51.

unfortunately there isn't shockwave player for linux nowbut we are trying to convince them to make it soonplease sign this petetion to prove our power