Install native 64bit Flash Player 10 on Linux
EDIT: updated the scripts to install the 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha refresh for Linux that was released on December 8th, 2009.
Adobe FINALY released a native 64bit Flash Player 10 plugin. Although this is still an alpha release, the news is very exciting for Linux users, since we don't longer depend on nspluginwrapper, which although does the job, has it's drawbacks.
I have put together a small tutorial on how to install the native flash player 10 64bit plugin for linux.
#!/bin/bash # Script created by # Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com echo "Stopping any Firefox that might be running" sudo killall -9 firefox echo "Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:" 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 Flash Player 10" cd ~ wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ echo "Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it." 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/ # now doing some cleaning up: sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so sudo rm -rf libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
You can now restart firefox 
Some users seem to have problems with viewing this page, so i wrapped everything needed to install the native 64bit flash player on linux into a shell script. Grab the Ubuntu script here, chmod +x and execute it.
Thanks to Claudio de Taunay for providing a script that works in OpenSuSE 11. You can pick it up here.
Thanks to Homer Xing from the Ailurus project you can now install native flash player 64bit on Fedora. You can pick up the script here.
Let me know if you encounter any bugs.
December 23rd, 2009 - 04:06
Just wanted to leave a comment, good work like this cannot go unnoticed, I have been trying to figure out how to get flash to work on 64 bit linux for some time now, kudos man.
December 23rd, 2009 - 12:12
very much appreciated compadre, keep up the good work.
December 26th, 2009 - 12:34
Best tutorial, all the others out there sux, they don’t remove the files completely, Tnx to the author, and now i can go through my java netbeans tutorial
December 29th, 2009 - 11:02
muchos gracia senior! De un otro usario feliz!
December 29th, 2009 - 23:55
Thank you, works as a charm for me too on Hardy.
January 2nd, 2010 - 10:52
You are great, thanks and have a wonderful 2010
January 10th, 2010 - 05:24
It looks like there’s a newer version available from Adobe: 10.1p2. Will you be updating your script to include it? I tried changing a few lines in your script but it did not work for me.
Thanks, by the way, for your script!
January 10th, 2010 - 05:34
Sorry, please disregard my prior comment re: 10.1p2 – it does not appear to be a 64 bit version.
January 12th, 2010 - 04:57
Excellent work! I’ve found various scripts online that were supposed to install flash, but yours is the only one that worked worth a tinkers’ damn – Thank you!
January 12th, 2010 - 05:39
AWSOME
January 13th, 2010 - 21:52
Still no Flash Player running for me on Ubuntu 9.10 w/ FireFox3.5 browser. The script seemed to execute fine but still no Flashplayer 10. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
January 15th, 2010 - 15:22
your science is indeed better
you’re a good man, Charlie Brown. thank you.
January 15th, 2010 - 20:30
i ran your script and it seemed like it all went through properly – checking about:plugins shows flash 10.0 r42 is installed and no errors came up while the script was running. however, firefox crashes every time something tries to use flash. i have to use flashblock to even browse without having a random ad crash firefox.
any ideas?
January 20th, 2010 - 06:08
Thanks a tonne for this , all other tutorials did not do a clean install and firefox always showed the previous version on ubuntu 8.04 , 64 bit. A few others tutorials had you linking to the npwrapper.libflashplayer.so and even that didnt work as expected or was flash version 9.0.260 masquerading as version 10.0
Importantly this tutorial worked perfectly. This is the most uptodate ( as of Jan 2010) libflashplayer.so flashplayer 10 installation that works perfectly. I can now enjoy my Hulu desktop on my linux box, thanks to you
January 23rd, 2010 - 23:11
SuSE 11.1 + FF 3.6 worked like a charm with the script. Thank you.
January 24th, 2010 - 08:37
Perfect! quick and easy to use. Thank you!
January 25th, 2010 - 22:43
Thank you thank you thank you thank you
January 27th, 2010 - 03:41
you are great
thank you very much
January 28th, 2010 - 01:41
Yes ! you have saved me a ton of time
February 8th, 2010 - 05:42
Great script, tnx a lot, but the version native of flash 64Bits not work in some channel in justin.tv and metacafe
February 9th, 2010 - 12:41
Thanks so much, it works great!
February 15th, 2010 - 10:10
BBC flashplayer crashes before playing them but Youtube works fine. I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and Firefox 3.5.7. Obviously 64-bit Ubuntu as well! Any ideas? Oh by the way great script!
February 17th, 2010 - 01:12
freaking awesome… one stop fix for all my flash player woes… you are brilliant!!! thank you!
February 18th, 2010 - 05:57
The 64 bit linux beta version was released 2010-02-11:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
February 20th, 2010 - 14:51
Any plans on updating this script to the latest alpha?
February 20th, 2010 - 15:01
NWM. I just exchanged *libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz with libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz. (In my case I had to change sudo killall -9 firefox with sudo killall -9 firefox-bin)
February 23rd, 2010 - 10:19
Thank you so much! Your a big help to newbies like me.
Keep on posting! I’ll check your site once in a while.
Thanks again!