Install Flash Player on Backtrack

If your Backtrack Flash Player does not work properly you must Install Flash Player on Backtrack again. The most common problem on Backtrack are the blank screen when using startx, sound does't work, WICD error, and Flash Player does not work. To make Flash Player works, you must uninstall current Flash Player that installed on Backtrack and then install the new one. Download Flash Player from Adobe Flash Player official page, http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer . Now lets do the first task

Remove / Uninstall Current Flash Player

Run this following command to remove old Backtrack Flash Player
apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla
rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*so
rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

Install Flash Player on Backtrack

After download Flash Player from it's official site now extract it into folder, for example "flash" folder
mkdir flash
mv -f install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz flash/
cd flash/
tar xvfz install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
cd ~


Then make Mozilla Plugins folder then copy all of the file on flash folder
mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins
cp -f libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

The last step is checking your new Flash Player. Go to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about and if you see the page like my screen shot below, your Flash Player is worked.

Now we know that the solution when Flash Player does not work is Install Flash Player on Backtrack with the new one. Happy hacking!

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