Adobe recently launched Flash Player 10 Beta codenamed "Astro". Great news, as it supports a bunch of new features, but as usually nothing yet for the 64 bit users. I'm going to show you how to get flash player 10 running on Ubuntu 64bit using nspluginwrapper. Before doing anything in the terminal make sure you close Firefox else you might not get the expected result.
1. Make sure you don't have any other flash plugin installed on your system:
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
1.1 To be sure we don't have any other old flash libs let's cleanup the folders where it usually resides:
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
2. Install ia32-libs and latest nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper
3. Download the latest flash player from Adobe Labs and extract it:
cd ~
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
tar zxvf flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/
4. Use nspluginwrapper to install the plugin and link it to firefox
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
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/
EDIT: here is how to install flash player 10 on 64bit systems for Liferea and Vuze
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/
5. Start Firefox and type in the address bar about:plugins and press enter. You should get a result similar to this one:
6. Go to http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/index.html and test the new features.
EDIT: if you are lazy by nature, you can just grab install_flash_player_10_ubuntu64bit, a small script i put together. Make it executable (chmox +x install_flash_player_10_ubuntu64bit) and run it in terminal. It will kill ask you for root password the kill any Firefox you might have running and install the flash player 10
1. Make sure you don't have any other flash plugin installed on your system:
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
1.1 To be sure we don't have any other old flash libs let's cleanup the folders where it usually resides:
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
2. Install ia32-libs and latest nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper
3. Download the latest flash player from Adobe Labs and extract it:
cd ~
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
tar zxvf flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/
4. Use nspluginwrapper to install the plugin and link it to firefox
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
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/
EDIT: here is how to install flash player 10 on 64bit systems for Liferea and Vuze
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/
5. Start Firefox and type in the address bar about:plugins and press enter. You should get a result similar to this one:
6. Go to http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/index.html and test the new features.
EDIT: if you are lazy by nature, you can just grab install_flash_player_10_ubuntu64bit, a small script i put together. Make it executable (chmox +x install_flash_player_10_ubuntu64bit) and run it in terminal. It will kill ask you for root password the kill any Firefox you might have running and install the flash player 10
Followed instructions exactly. Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 amd64. Does not work.
David,
can you post the output of "ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/"
I'm available to help you get flash player 10 running :)
does not work for me either
ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9953520 2008-05-20 12:12 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2008-05-20 12:10 npwrapper.libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
David and Peter,
After you guys told me that the tutorial did not worked for you i decided i should try following the same tutorial on a clean Hardy 64bit install. And indeed it did not worked.
After looking around for a while i have figured out that FF3b5 that's default in Hardy is trying to get plugins from /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
All i had to do to make FF3 work was to link the plugin in there also. i have update in BOLD font the tutorial.
Now everything should be fine.
Thanks for the replies.
THX that helped for FF#3
however do you know how to do the same thing for opera I trie to use opera plugins config to add the same paths but it would do no good
THX that helped for FF#3
however do you know how to do the same thing for opera I trie to use opera plugins config to add the same paths but it would do no good
Peter,
I don't use Opera but i thought to give it a try an test the plugin.
I just downloaded the 64bit package from a mirror here in Romania (ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.opera.com/linux/950b2/final/en/x86_64/opera_9.50b2-20080422.2-shared-qt_amd64.deb) and after install, on 1st run of Opera it detected the flash 10 plugin and it just worked.
I checked the options and here is what i have in my Plug-in path:
/usr/lib/opera/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Peter,
i have posted a screenshot of how my Plugin Options look like for my Opera:
http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/flash_10_opera_64bit.png
I have the same settings but i does not work guess I'll have to reinstall opera
Worked perfectly on Hardy Heron. You guys saved my life from evil Windows.
i manage to install the flash.but i can hear no sound when i open a youtube video.
Thanks, really useful - especially as you can simply copy and paste your solutions - no "#" or "$" at the beginning of each line that needs removing!
Hi. When I try the following command:
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
I get the following error message:
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libssl3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Josh.