Install native 64bit Flash Player 10 on Linux

THANK YOU!! :)
- Seems to be working so far.

Great!
Thank you!

Thank you for a script. It looks like all is fine on 8.10.

Yep, worked for me on Intrepid. Flash works much better thus far.

Thanks for the install script, works great. So far the flash player seems generally more stable, although it seems to crash Firefox when I try to play videos on Vimeo.

Anyone else experience this?

Vimeo videos work fine for me.

I tried installing the script and when I went to run pandora radio it said I needed macromedia flash player. I followed Adobes instructions and copied the so file to the mozilla/plugins folder (it was already there from above) and got the same result. I tried youtube and nothing.

Am I missing something?

@tmort: 1st of all, make sure that any old flashplayers are removed. this includes swfdec, gnash or flashplugin-nonfree.

my script should have taken care of that.. but best if you inspect the installed packages via synaptic and remove any flash traces. then rerun the script

When I did this I had to change

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

to

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/firefox/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/firefox/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

Err I had a typo in the last thing.. I had to change it to

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

I tired the modified script with no luck. I also saw that the folder plugins was not in the firefox folder so I copied the mozilla plug in folder along with its contents to firefox but still no lunk. I get a missing plug in message with Pandora radio and if I do about:plugins in Firefox it isn't on the list.

I have removed all other flash players

Eu create one script that works on Opensuse 11.0 64bits
( Keys: Instalar flash plugin 10.0 firefox mozilla 64 bits opensuse 11.0 )

#!/bin/bash
# Script created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com
# # http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/2008/11/install-native-64bit-flash-player-10-on-linux.html
# Adaptação para Opensuse 11.0 - Claudio de Taunay

echo "Stopping any Firefox that might be running"
sudo killall -9 firefox

echo "Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:"

sudo rm -f /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

echo "Installing Flash Player 10"
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

# now doing some cleaning up:
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

@Claudio: thanks a lot for the contribution. I'm uploading the script up so anyone can download it.

Nice post, but it's not working on my Kubuntu 8.04 64bit. I run your script for ubuntu. It is executed without problems but still, I found my firefox asking to install flash plugin (as if I don't have one installed)

Hi,

Apart from sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozila/plugins

you don't have to do anything else for Flash to work, both FF and Opera picks it up nicely and so does other flash dependent items like Prism etc.

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH! tHANKS to you, i was able to install adobe with out ANY problems :)

I didn't use your script, but I used your science...AND IT IS WAY BETTER...Thank you so much!