Install Flash 10 Under Ubuntu Linux 64 bit Edition

How can I uninstall it ?.. It didn’t work for me and no flash is played.

Thanks

Thanks – was searching for this for a long time !

Worked perfectly

Excellent work. Thanks, big time!

This also downloads i386 packages of various libraries like libcurl3 etc.
If the 64-bit versions are already installed then does will they clash ?

Thanks a lot. A 2 seconds’ installation. Worked on my Ubuntu 8.10 64.

That will install the x86 version of Flash 10. To install the x64, go to Adobe’s website and download Flash 64 for linux and untar it to ‘~/.mozilla/plugins’.

Thanks for this excellent script!

Worked flawlessly!

Cheers

Awesome! THanks! Great script!

Hello. I tried the above installation schemes and they were partially successful. I can receive video on youtube but no audio. I cannot receive streaming audio from KXPR FM radio. I can receive Stockwatch video on the Excite website. I also tried Adobe’s new 64-bit flash plugin with the same results. I can hear audio when using MPlayer so I know the sound card works.

Ant ideas? TIA

Dan

Hey thanks for the nice simple instructions and the script. :)

Hmm, I think the most annoying part of this all is that just so many sites are depending on the proprietary flash player. I can see the benefit when it comes to vector-based graphics, animations, and rich client apps. But why do video sites like many TV stations, YouTube etc. just assume that you have flash installed? wouldn’t it be much simpler to just embed an H.264 / MPEG4 video URL into an <object> tag on their site, so anyone can use the player they want?
Is there any technical advantage of flash video in general over an open standard like H.264, or is it just the web designers getting soothed by Adobe’s marketing blurb?

thanks for the guide guy

Nope didn’t help still no evidence of a flash plugin at all by running about:plugins. Mystified… Ubuntu 8.04. Installed from a 7.10 flash drive boot and then upgraded online.

Thank you very much. Worked perfectly.
8.10 64bit Toshiba L355-S7812, X3100.

Thanks, works like a charm!

Like most of the others : thanks, it works!

I agree. That worked out well for me. Just remember to remove the old flash first.

Adler: That will install the x86 version of Flash 10. To install the x64, go to Adobe’s website and download Flash 64 for linux and untar it to ‘~/.mozilla/plugins’.

top stuff mate. alejandro/you can have a joint on me ;-)

wow…….. Its working with simple two steps. I am looking for this long time. Thank you authors

Wonderful. Finally have working Flash Player on my Wubi Ubuntu 8.10. Thanks so much! This really is the answer to 64-bit Linux Flash Player problems.

Just run this on a newly upgraded system, from 8.04 to 9.04 Beta (Jaunty Jackalope) – worked perfectly. Great work – many thanks!!

This script works flawlessly. One addition I did is to add “firefox” right at the end so that it automagically starts firefox when it finishes.

@mirko One advantage of using flash is that you can (in theory) embed your media so that it’s not so easily available for download as posting a movie file. Also you can customise the controls and add interactivity to the playback that just embedding a movie object wouldn’t let you do. An example is the way spewtube adds thumbnails of related videos after the video you watch, and the way the playback controls can be made to appear when you hover over the screen. I’d love to see an open source alternative to flash, but it ain’t here yet.

like so many others on top, Thank You so much for the script. i’ll try to learn more from now on. cheers

Thanks. That was a breeze!

So efficient!!!!! worked for me on ubuntu 9.0.4 64 bit :D!!
Thanks a lot!

Fantastic script, ran this on my Ubuntu 9.04 x64 and works like a dream, I now will hardly ever need to boot into windows :-)

thanks worked great on my ubuntu 9.04 X64 ur awesome!!!!

Perfect, painless (or would have been if I’d found you first, doh – bookmarked now). Thank you very, very much! 9.04 64 bit

Dead straight forward – Worked straight away on my 9.0.4 64bit!

Thanks a MILLION!!! It worked beautifully!

jj

Many many thanks I am now watching flash movies instead of a blank screen on Ubuntu 9.04 no problems!

Cheers,

Worked perfectly on Ubuntu 9.04, hopefully my dual boot days will soon be over !!

Thank you – worked a treat with Firefox 3.5 beta / Ubuntu 9.04

Worked PERFECT on my Debian-5.0-2.6.26-amd64!!

Many Thanks!! : )

Wow, this is fantastic!

I have only recently turned to Linux Ubuntu out of frustration with Vista. After installing the 64 bit version on my laptop I was starting to think I had made a bad decision when things taken for granted in Firefox stopped working.

Creating video slide show is a key task in marketing my business so this is really important to me.

Thank you very much for creating the scripts and writing this page!

Pat Bloomfield

Thank you!
Worked perfectly.
(AMD64 3200+, Ubuntu 9.04, Firefox 3.5)

yeha thanks!!!!

Thank you very much, worked fine for me on Ubu 9.04 and had been trying many different non-working solutions ;)

Brilliant, worked first time on my Jaunty 64bit. Now I can play all the silly flash games I stumbleupon :)

This didn’t work for me, but after enabling the universe rep, it installed through Firefox (when going to a flash site), on it’s own just fine.
This is on 9.04 Ubuntu

Is this really required any more ?
Adobe has launched beta version of 64-bit flash player.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Thank you, it works perfectly in ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 edition

Mr. Nicholson..
Thank you. You solution is so simple, as to be unbelievable. The only thing you might consider adding is that firefox has to be restarted afterwards to load the plugin before it starts working.

I have yet to understand why Ubuntu doesn’t support upgrading minor versions of firefox. Nor does firefox install correctly when their instructions on mozilla/firefox’s website are followed (on 64-bit machines).

This is exactly why linux will never be mainstream. A normal computer user would never jump through the hoops that linux makes a person jump through for something that should be 1 mouse click.

I think a new distro needs to be put together and it should be called “1-click”. Hopefully it won’t conflict with Amazon’s, ebays (?) patents… :)

Sadly script did not work for me with the following script error at the end:

2009-09-23 12:39:41 (64.9 KB/s) – `install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz’ saved [4044751/4044751]

libflashplayer.so
cp: cannot stat `install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so’: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so is not a valid NPAPI plugin
Linking the libraries so that firefox can see them.
Done :-)
You may re-start Firefox now

I also tried manually dragging in libflashplayer.so file as Jon Nicholson suggested but that did not work also.
Firefox about:plugins showed no plugins installed.
Using Firefox 3.5.3 using ubuntuzilla, and the following hardware:
emachines D620 AMD Athlon 64, Jaunty 9.04 64 installed dual boot NTFS using WUBI.

Linux has come a long way, but still longer road to travel before it becomes a viable alternative to the evil empire.

This still works fine on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope as of Sept 2009 –
BUT you have to fix a path in the script. The script downloads the flash player from the Internet and unpacks it. The directory structure inside the flash player archive has changed, is why it is breaking now. Before the flash player plugin (libflashplayer.so) was inside a folder called “install_flash_player”, and now it just unpacks into the current directory.

All this results in the script exploding with the error reported by wewa. But if you fix the path in the script, it works like magic again.

To do this, first download the script from this page, then edit it and search for the section starting with: echo "Installing Flash Player 10":

Replace these two lines:

sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/


with this one line:

sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/


So the whole section now looks like this:


echo "Installing Flash Player 10"
cd ~
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so


Now save it, remember to chmod 755 it it’s runnable, and run it with: sudo ./flash10_en.sh

restart firefox and voila, working flash!! Awesome!!

Thanks a lot man. The new script works great.

Because the URL for the “getlibs-all” seems to be broken (for me atleast) i replaced this line
wget http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb
with this line
wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb

Awesome – works for chrome as well!! Great job

Must agree with chuisco, the suggested approach completely mucked up Flash.

Extract the file libflashplayer.so and then place the file “libflashplayer.so” in ~/.mozilla/plugins

Here is a direct copy of my updated version of the script. The change log is in the head of the file.

#!/bin/bash
# Script  created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com
# Super minor updates by jason.melton[at]gmail[dot]com
# Updates by Alejandro Cuervo 3[at]cuervo[dot]net
# Released under GPL
#
# Updated on Oct. 14, 2009 by Digimer (Madison Kelly, mkelly@alteeve.com)
# - Found and copied getlibs-all.deb to the AN!Wiki as the old link was dead.
# - Added pause and warned the user to close their browser before kill -9'ing.
# - Added an initial check to see if the effective UID is 0 and removed 'sudo'
#   calls.
# - Added the -y switch to the ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper install line.
# - Removed the 'cd ~' because I'd rather all downloaded files stay in the
#   execution directory.
#

# Checking if the user has (effective) root access.
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
   echo "This script must be run via 'sudo' as the 'root' user." 1>&2
   exit 1
fi

echo "Please close Firefox. Pressing any key will continue the install which"
echo "will kill any left over running firefox proceses!"
echo ""
echo "Press the  key when ready."
read $GO

killall -9 firefox
echo "Any Firefox instances have been closed."

echo "Downloading and instaling Getlibs for required libraries"
wget http://wiki.alteeve.com/local/x86_flash/getlibs-all.deb
dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb

echo "Removing previous installs of flash:"
apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

echo "Installing ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper"
apt-get -y install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper

echo "Getting libs"
getlibs -p libcurl3
getlibs -p libnss3-1d
getlibs -p libnspr4-0d

echo "Installing Flash Player 10"
wget http://wiki.alteeve.com/local/x86_flash/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

echo "Linking the libraries so that firefox can see them."
ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

echo "Done :-)"
echo "You may re-start Firefox now"

2nd IMPROVED VERSION:
for the pure 64-bit-flash-version: installation guide:

download Flash from here then upack
from this post translatet:

# deinstall all other Flashplayer
# which are installed?:
dpkg -l flashplugin-nonfree mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla
#
# delete installed:
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla flashplugin-nonfree
#
# create new folder for Flashplayer:
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/
#
# copy the new Flashplayer in the just created folder. change the first term to the unpacked path.
# if you unpacked to your Desktop, replace YourDownloadPath with /home/YourLoginName/Desktop
sudo cp YourDownloadPath/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/
#
# give Firefox the Flashplayer as Plugin , by creating a symbolic Link to the path of the Flashplayers in Plugin-folder from Firefox:
sudo ln -s  /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

4th MORE IMPROVED VERSION, fully linelengh checked with #:

for the pure 64-bit-flash-version: installation guide:

download Flash from here then upack
from this post translatet:

# deinstall all other Flashplayer
# which are installed?:
dpkg -l flashplugin-nonfree mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla
#
# delete installed:
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla flashplugin-nonfree
#
# create new folder for Flashplayer:
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/
#
# copy the new Flashplayer in the just created folder. change the first
# term to the unpacked path.
# if you unpacked to your Desktop, replace YourDownloadPath with
# /home/YourLoginName/Desktop
sudo cp YourDownloadPath/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/
#
# give Firefox the Flashplayer as Plugin , by creating a symbolic Link
# to the path of the Flashplayers in Plugin-folder from Firefox:
sudo ln -s  /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

wrapper good bye!

Thank you, nubo! It worked like a charm for me on 9.10.

One note, I had to uninstall “flashplugin-installer” as that was what loaded when I upgraded to 9.10.

hey, kinda new to this part of ubuntu…what do i do exactly with the script?

thanks nubo. works form my karmic 64. :D

Thanks !!! Works fine. @all remember to uninstall “flashplugin-installer” first if you use nubo’s guide.

This method (Nuno’s) causes Firefox to crash when opening pages that use flash.
PS. I did remove “flashplugin-installer”

Firefox 3.5.4
Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit

adamn,

maybe you have some more flash plugins installed like gnash… try looking at the plugins tab at the add-on window in firefox

Sorry I didn’t mention this straight away. The problem was that I wasn’t in the directory where the driver was upacked. I went to the directory (in the command line) and did:
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Firefox stopped crashing. I had originally used the following to delete all flash stuff:
sudo apt-get remove -y –purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper

thanks a lot guys…

Hey that seems to work for everybody, but here is the question.. how do I use a script ?
with terminal ?

And also, for the line in terminal :
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla flashplugin-nonfree

I Got :
Lecture des listes de paquets… Fait
Construction de l’arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d’état… Fait
E: Le paquet adobe-flashplugin doit être réinstallé, mais il est impossible de trouver son archive.
(needs to be reinstalled, but it is impossible to find archive.)

So… What do I do ?
I don’t understant how to uninstall it, and either how to reinstall the right one for me.
I can’t open synaptics.

Just got upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 with no flash player installed before. And first time I tried, it chashed. I’m sure there is a evident solution that is not reformat and reinstall..
Thanks.

Worked like a charm! Thanks guys.

I followed Nubio’s fourth set of directions except that the link to the flashplayer he provided was not labled 64 bit. I hunted around the adobe site and found this link:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html

I used that download with all his other directions and it worked perfectly.

Thanks for this helpful advice.

Aggravated: maybe if you try to understand the script, you wouldn’t be so stupid….

After fighting flashplayer for DAYS, following my upgrade to Karmic, two very specific suggestions fixed me completely: Jon Nicholson´s comment of 9/18 above, and, from tremulous.net/forum, the following – ¨ I finally renamed /usr/bin/pulseaudio to effectively remove it, rebooted and no sound problems anymore. ¨ Thanks to Pythonic for that one.

Barry

Again me. I used this libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz. In FF with about:plugisn I see this;
Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r260

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

Any help would be appreciated.

ugknite, thanks for your reply. I actually removed all my flash files with apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree swfdec-mozilla, because I hade only these two packages from this command: dpkg -l flashplugin-nonfree mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla. The directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins was totally empty before I copied libflashplayer.so. I tried this steps on kubuntu 8.04 x86 only the libflashplayer.so was for x86 and it works like a charm, without even making a soft link. Just copied the libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and that is it. When I do this on x86_64 FF craches. With the soft link it does not crash, but it does not work, wlthoug it is in about:plugins. Can someone confirm that the flash works with 64bit 8.04 hardy kubuntu?

@ alka you do not have to make any links or copy anything in $HOME/.mozilla. On 8.04 x86 I just copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and FF 3.5.6 works. On 8.04 x86_64 in this way FF 3.5.6 crashes. With soft link it does not crash, but it does not work.

I am running ubuntu 9.10, and firefox 3.5.6. I tried to get the 64 bit native version working, but whenever I load youtube.com, my browser closes.

Using sena’s last comment I was able to get flash 64-bit working, thanks!
There is one additional link required to have flash player work within an embedded browser of an Eclipse application.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/xulrunner-addons/plugins/


I have an interesting problem. flash loads and plays fine, but once it does I can’t interact with the flash. When I click, the cursor changes to one hovering over a link. When I release, the cursor is normal as if the flash isn’t there. This problem seems to be with flash on my entire system, as Chrome, Firefox, and even Avant (window navigator Pandora app) is effected. Even weirder, sometimes it works, and some flash I can interact with. Sometimes that interaction stops and then I can refresh and it works fine and then degrades again.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7

Alright, that sounds like something I may try. Are there special instructions for installing the beta? Still working my way through Linux :)

Does it work when Firefox 3.5 is running? When I click on firefox-bin, it does nothing. Do I need to run it through the terminal? I put it in its own folder (Firefox) in my home folder – don’t know if that might make a difference.

Worked for me. IF THIS FAILS FOR YOU, EDIT THE SCRIPT and add
sudo before every cp and ln operation. I had this issue. Worked for me after the edit. Thanks for the script.

Thanks for the script.

Had to tweak in slightly because libflashplayer.so ended up in my home directory rather than a install_flash_player_10_linux/ subdir.

Thanks!

James

#!/bin/bash
# Script  created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com
# Super minor updates by jason.melton[at]gmail[dot]com
# Updates by Alejandro Cuervo 3[at]cuervo[dot]net
# Released under GPL

echo "Closing Firefox"
sudo killall -9 firefox

echo "Downloading and instaling Getlibs for required libraries"
wget http://frozenbox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb

echo "Removing previous installs of flash:"
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

echo "Installing ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper"
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper

echo "Getting libs"
sudo getlibs -p libcurl3
sudo getlibs -p libnss3-1d
sudo getlibs -p libnspr4-0d

echo "Installing Flash Player 10"
cd ~
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz libflashplayer.so
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

echo "Linking the libraries so that firefox can see them."
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

echo "Done :-)"
echo "You may re-start Firefox now"

Edited by admin : added code tags

Your script worked like a charm. Thank you so much!