I've already written about installing Flash player 10 under 32 bit version. But, couple of our readers asked about installing Flash player 10 final version under Ubuntu Linux 64 bit edition. This small post will cover flash 10 Ubuntu Linux 64 bit installation.
Alejandro has published a shell script to automate entire process. Open terminal and type the following command to install Flash 10 under 64 bit edition (please exit any browsers you may have running):
$ wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh
$ sudo bash ./flash10_en.sh
Fire a Firefox and type about:plugins to verify installation:
Fig.01: Ubuntu Linux flash 10 in action
Alternatively, visit Youtube to see flash videos.
A note about RHEL / CentOS / Fedora Linux 64 bit version
- Red Hat / RHEL / CentOS / Fedora 64 bit Linux user can install nspluginwrapper manually. You can install and use Flash, Java, Real Player 32 bit plugins under 64 bit Linux Firefox version using nspluginwrapper.
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Just installed it on my 8.04 64 bit. No problems during install script and it works just fine. Thanks a lot!
How can I uninstall it ?.. It didn’t work for me and no flash is played.
Thanks
Try
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
sudo apt-get remove ia32-libs nspluginwrapper
HTH
Thanks – was searching for this for a long time !
Just 2 lines, and it worked perfectly on my Ubuntu 8.10-64. Thank you!
Worked perfectly
Thanks for this! Worked for Ubuntu 8.10-64. No problems at all. Still no dailyshow.com, but hey..
Excellent work. Thanks, big time!
Works like a bomb! Thank you very much Alejandro for the script & Vivek for publicizing it here.
This also downloads i386 packages of various libraries like libcurl3 etc.
If the 64-bit versions are already installed then does will they clash ?
Uninstalled my (working) version of Flash 9 and failed to replace it with 10. Great.
Thanks a lot. A 2 seconds’ installation. Worked on my Ubuntu 8.10 64.
Tried this but it did not work. The only thing that work is every time I logon on have to execute a script to re-link the 64bit Alpha version of libflashplayer.so.
It’s very consistent, logon start Firefox 3.04 and .flv files will not play.
If I then open a terminal and execute these two commands and then Press F5 .flv files play. (Test site is http://www.abc.net.au)
cp ‘/home/kylea/Documents/Custom Packages – Linux/FireFox Add Ons/libflashplayer.so’ /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
ln -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so
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’.
A big thanks to the author of the script. Working fine here..
Thanks for this excellent script!
Worked flawlessly!
Cheers
great script. It did work to me. Thanks fellow
Awesome! THanks! Great script!
Thanks,
Now I can see the Brightkite.com “Wall” on my real computer an 1st gen. Opteron with 4GB Ram runnning Ubuntu/64Bit Verision
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
This worked great for me under Ubuntu 8.10 64bit.
Hey thanks for the nice simple instructions and the script. :)
Works fine, thank you! :)
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?
Just install libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and ./mozilla/plugins
thanks for the guide guy
Tried this but no luck. Got the following script errors:
install_flash_player_10_linux/
install_flash_player_10_linux/flashplayer-installer
install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Linking the libraries so that firefox can see them.
Done :-)
You may re-start Firefox now
Seeing no flash plugin at all by running: about:plugins. About to try clearing /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and ~/.mozilla/plugins and copying the so file to those directories.
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.
Thanks a ton for the script, everything is working perfectly!
Thank you very much. Worked perfectly.
8.10 64bit Toshiba L355-S7812, X3100.
Thank you and I love you.
Thanks, works like a charm!
Works nice. Thanks.
Like most of the others : thanks, it works!
I just can’t thank you enough for finally pointing us towards a no-hassles working script to get flash for 64 bit. its always been a pipe dream on 64 bit. shall i wait for adobe? shall i try out some gnashing and klashing? Shall I downgrade to a 32 bit distro (I’ve no reason not to :P ) ? How do I get 32 bit plugins on my 64bit firefox, but atlast I did. Thanks to that open source script. Going thru the script, I did notice there wasn’t any instruction for removing klash which I had installed on my kubuntu, but that seems to not have had any impact, as right now i’m using the google talk sidebar gadget.
Thanks once again :)
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’.
Thank you so much for posting this. I just started using Ubuntu today, and I had no idea what I was doing.
top stuff mate. alejandro/you can have a joint on me ;-)
worked on Jaunty Jackalope!!
wow…….. Its working with simple two steps. I am looking for this long time. Thank you authors
THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
Thank you! Hulu wasn’t working on my computer this morning, but this fixed it right up!
Just run this on a newly upgraded system, from 8.04 to 9.04 Beta (Jaunty Jackalope) – worked perfectly. Great work – many thanks!!
WORKS! THNX!
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.
Brillinat, simple, quick, efficient.
working out of the box rfor Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty (amb 64 bits)
Thanks heaps! :-)
like so many others on top, Thank You so much for the script. i’ll try to learn more from now on. cheers
Thanks for script – worked perfik!
Thanks. That was a breeze!
Great, it works a treat, saved me no end of bother trying to track down the problem
Your hard work is much appreciated
So efficient!!!!! worked for me on ubuntu 9.0.4 64 bit :D!!
Thanks a lot!
I was pulling my hair out trying to get it to work. This was simple and worked like a charm. No more firefox crashes!!! I really appreciate it.
Ubuntu 9.0.4 64bit w/ ext4
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 like a charm!
thanks worked great on my ubuntu 9.04 X64 ur awesome!!!!
This worked! It rocks! Thanks a bunch!
DrewDog
Perfect, painless (or would have been if I’d found you first, doh – bookmarked now). Thank you very, very much! 9.04 64 bit
Brilliant – Thank you!!! Keep up the good work :)
Dead straight forward – Worked straight away on my 9.0.4 64bit!
Thank you a lot!
It worked perfectly
Cheers,
Ana
Thanks a MILLION!!! It worked beautifully!
jj
Worked beautifully. For noobs like myself, remember not to cut the “$” when you cut and paste or you’ll get an error.
Many many thanks I am now watching flash movies instead of a blank screen on Ubuntu 9.04 no problems!
Thanks a lot, I’ve tried to install flash through synaptic but that didn’t do a lot, now it finally works on Ubuntu 9.04. I say it again: THANK YOU.
Cheers,
Worked perfectly on Ubuntu 9.04, hopefully my dual boot days will soon be over !!
Thanks a lot, Worked greatly here on Ubuntu 9.04 too :)
Thank you – worked a treat with Firefox 3.5 beta / Ubuntu 9.04
Thanks very much for this script. Worked great on Jaunty and FF 3.0.11
Worked PERFECT on my Debian-5.0-2.6.26-amd64!!
Many Thanks!! : )
This flash player for linux has a bug. It can work it can show some files but has a bug because of which I can not do right click on flash and do settings! It freezes at that time.
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
So simple and works great!
million thanks
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Thank you!
Worked perfectly.
(AMD64 3200+, Ubuntu 9.04, Firefox 3.5)
Thanks for the guide, though before doing this I’d recommend trying the experimental native 64-bit Flash that Adobe offers at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html /
yeha thanks!!!!
I fixed the script so that it uses the debugger version on 64-bit machine. It works really well. Can anyone tell me where to upload these changes?
You can just paste it here (put btw <pre> shell script </pre>) tag.
good GOD – i cannot tell you how many different things i tried to get flash to work on 64bit 9.04. had all kinds of problems: first it didnt work at all, then it would work on some pages (like youtube) but not many others, then i got it to work on some other pages (but when it couldnt play a video or ad firefox would crash)… i eventually had to use the flashblock add-on just so i could surf the net without the browser crashing from random ads.
but now, as with everyone else above, it finally seems to be working like it should – and i was this close to giving up and trying the 32bit distro…
thank you so much!