Sunday, October 5, 2014

Installing Adobe Flash to LiveUSB Kali Linux

This tutorial will be very easy and straight-forward, documenting it here mostly so I can find it quickly if I need to.  For the most part, you can get away these days without having to install Adobe Flash Player (notoriously bad for allowing all kinds of malware to take over your computer).  However, a website that is used by my school for doing homework, requires you to have Adobe Flash installed (just for certain parts, I could still get around that requirement to get credit).

So we can mitigate this risk by using a Live system, that is one that runs in RAM and has all bootloader/kernel/config files on either a CD/DVD or USB-stick. Using Adobe Flash for whatever reason you have to, then the download gets stored in RAM and is promptly wiped on shutdown.

Note that there is already a tutorial (which I did but was way more painful than this simple method), but there's a much easier way to get what you need. 

http://lewiscomputerhowto.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-to-install-adobe-flash-player-in.html

Don't laugh at how easy this is, ok? :)

Tools needed:
--Computer capable of running Kali Linux (likely most other linuxes too) with decent amount of RAM (1 GB let's say)
--An internet connection

1) Open up a terminal, type: "apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree"












You will see quite a bit of activity, lots of files downloaded.  Takes about 30 seconds to a minute to complete.

2) Once downloaded, update the plugin by typing: "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install"

That's all there is to it!  Be mindful of the spacing!  Very simple and painless and you can go do whatever you need with Adobe Flash and then shutdown to erase it (which you can verify by trying to access sites requiring Flash).

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