Boston University Linux

Macromedia's Flash is a great plugin for your browser. With it, you can view .swf animations — MIME-type "Application/x-shockwave-flash".

Unfortunately we cannot legally distribute this software with BU Linux. However, do not fret — we can point you to where an officially-permitted RPM package of the plugin resides:

You can get the rpm here: http://macromedia.mplug.org/

Just download the rpm for Fedora Core (the nearest match for BU Linux) and install it like this:

sudo rpm -Uvh flash-plugin-*.i386.rpm

and you should be all set.

(Note that the bigger Macromedia Shockwave Player is not available as a native Linux app.)