Install native 64bit Flash Player 10 on Linux

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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.

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Prasant
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.
htedrom
December 23rd, 2009 - 12:12

very much appreciated compadre, keep up the good work.
hazmy
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
octavio
December 29th, 2009 - 11:02

muchos gracia senior! De un otro usario feliz!
gråskæg
December 29th, 2009 - 23:55

Thank you, works as a charm for me too on Hardy.
Nicola
January 2nd, 2010 - 10:52

You are great, thanks and have a wonderful 2010
WestCoastSuccess
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!
WestCoastSuccess
January 10th, 2010 - 05:34

Sorry, please disregard my prior comment re: 10.1p2 – it does not appear to be a 64 bit version.
Roknrol
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!
Ernesto
January 12th, 2010 - 05:39

AWSOME
Jeff
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.
the_guv
January 15th, 2010 - 15:22

your science is indeed better

you’re a good man, Charlie Brown. thank you.
anextx
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?
hari
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
E
January 23rd, 2010 - 23:11

SuSE 11.1 + FF 3.6 worked like a charm with the script. Thank you.
mlidge
January 24th, 2010 - 08:37

Perfect! quick and easy to use. Thank you!
Joelle
January 25th, 2010 - 22:43

Thank you thank you thank you thank you
sasha9999
January 27th, 2010 - 03:41

you are great
thank you very much
HB
January 28th, 2010 - 01:41

Yes ! you have saved me a ton of time