Installing flash on Backtrack 5

Backtrack comes with flash installed, but it doesn't work.  Believe it or not Nessus requires flash ! A security scanner that requires flash, oh the irony ..

Following the instructions provided by BT didn't work for me so I'm reproducing the 32bit steps which did :

Grab the correct/latest flash install from adobe.com : 

install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz

Run the following commands : 

Remove BT installed files 

apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozillarm -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*sorm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

Install downloaded version

tar xvfz install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins

mv -f libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Test within the browser, firefox about:plugins

UPDATE : This process also works for Chromium