Flash and Adobe Acrobat browser plugins
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Note: Because web browser plug-ins are standardized, take a look at Firefox:Useful plug-ins for more information. The directions will work with most browsers in addition to Firefox.
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Flash Player
To install Flash Player, run:
# pacman -S flashplugin
You may also need to install ttf-ms-fonts to render text properly for Flash Player:
# pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts
Troubleshooting
If plug-ins in Firefox do not work at all, check the permissions of /usr/lib/mozilla. In some cases only root may be allowed to read files.
$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla cd: permission denied: /usr/lib/mozilla
# chmod 755 /usr/lib/mozilla # chmod 755 /usr/lib/mozilla/extensions
Performance
Adobe's Flash plug-in has some serious performance issues, specially when CPU frequency scaling is used. There seems to be a policy not to use the whole CPU workload, so the frequency scaling governor does not clock the CPU any higher. To work around this issue, see: CPUfreq:Changing the Ondemand Governor's threshold
If you have an ATI card, try disabling AIGLX by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Option "AIGLX" "False"
Configuration
To change your general plug-in preferences (privacy settings, resource usage, etc.), you have to go to the Macromedia website. There, a Flash animation will give you access to your local settings.
Adobe Reader
Due to licensing restrictions, Adobe Reader cannot be distributed from any of the normal Arch repository. There is a version available in the AUR.
There are localizations available in many languages, check the AUR for your language.
Due to a missing path you have to run:
$ ln -s /usr/share/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread /usr/bin
Please note that no matter how many votes it receives, this package will never be included in the [community] repository. See this comment for an explanation.