Install Ruffle on Raspberry Pi

Ruffle

Ruffle is a open source Adobe Flash Player emulator aimed at having the best compatibility as the official Adobe Flash Player (which is proprietary, EOL and has many unpatched security vulnerabilities)

Ruffle is a constant work in progress, so except a lot of nigthly updates and bugs/broken features until a stable release in the future.

This will compile the latest branch from source which as of writing this is nightly-2025-03-08.

Raspberry Pi specific note: Ruffle defaults to the Vulkan rendering backend, which causes issues like graphical issues and break certain Flash content on the Pi's GPU. To solve this, switch to the OpenGL rendering backend which is more stable on the Pi's GPU.

To switch rendering backends:
Menu --> Preferences --> Graphics Backend (Default --> OpenGL)
Then restart the app and you should be good to go.

To run: Menu -> Games -> Ruffle
To run in a terminal: ruffle

Fortunately, Ruffle is very easy to install on your Raspberry Pi in just two steps.

  1. Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Raspberry Pi.
  2. Use Pi-Apps to install Ruffle.

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, which is currently version Bookworm.
Raspberry Pi OS has 32-bit and 64-bit variants, both of which will run on most Raspberry Pi computers, including the Pi 3, Pi 4, and Pi5.
Ruffle will run on either PiOS 32-bit or 64-bit.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Raspberry Pi with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

Install Ruffle

Now that you have Pi-Apps installed, it is time to install Ruffle.
First launch Pi-Apps from your start menu:

Then click on the Games category.

Now scroll down to find Ruffle in the list.

Just click Install and Pi-Apps will install Ruffle for you!

Pi-Apps is a free and open source tool made by Botspot, theofficialgman, and other contributors. Find out more at https://pi-apps.io