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Install native 64bit Flash Player 10 on Linux

EDIT 4 (14 July 2011): Adobe released Adobe Flash Player 11 beta 1 so i've wrote a tutorial on how to install adobe flash player 11 on linux 64 bit

EDIT 3 (17 Sept 2010): Adobe launched Adobe® Flash® Player "Square" so i've put together a tutorial on how to install adobe flash player square on linux

EDIT 2: Libflashplayer is now hosted on this site since Adobe killed the URL. It's not anything official or whatever, just a temp home :)

EDIT: updated the scripts to install the 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha refresh for Linux that was released on February, 2010.

Adobe FINALLY 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 ~
# since adobe is not hosting libflashplayer anymore, the lib is downloaded from my site.
# wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
wget http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/flash-player/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.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-10.0.45.2.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.

the scripts to install in different distro:
Ubuntu: install native flash 64bit on Ubuntu

Fedora: install native flash 64bit on Fedora

OpenSuse: install native flash 64bit on OpenSuse

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  1. Ashwini K Pandey
    September 26th, 2010 - 22:00

    Thanks a lot…

  2. det
    October 2nd, 2010 - 16:41

    The link used to download tar.gz package is not working already, need another way.
    I am using Gentoo Linux.

  3. Yee
    October 3rd, 2010 - 15:04

    Thanks for such a great script. My neopets games work now :P

  4. manasses
    October 6th, 2010 - 14:48

    nice nice tutorial help me alot thanks

  5. Lee M
    October 10th, 2010 - 09:31

    I needed to install the .so file into /usr/lib64/mozilla…. not /usr/lib/mozilla….
    The Fedora Script installs into lib, not lib64
    This is on a clean F13 machine.

  8. Hussein
    October 29th, 2010 - 09:22

    Finally… thanks

  9. Styl
    November 7th, 2010 - 11:45

    Awesome!!
    Worked !!
    Thanks a lot my friend, for your help!
    Styl (Brazil)

  10. meisterhofi
    November 10th, 2010 - 21:49

    YOU ARE FANTASTIC!!! Daniel (Germany) thanks a lot!

  11. shawn
    November 17th, 2010 - 19:19

    I seem to remember there was a way to put it in the .mozilla directory and not need root to do this. I could just be misremembering this. Thanks for the how to though, I always forget the directory.

  12. Éric Dupuis
    November 20th, 2010 - 21:29

    Thanks, it worked great! :D

  13. marcorpses
    November 29th, 2010 - 01:48

    gracias me hizo un parote tu ayuda ahora a disfrutar peliculas de youtube

  14. Philip Snyder
    December 1st, 2010 - 05:20

    found the 64bit version on Adobe’s site… I haven’t tried it since yours worked just fine for me, but thought I’d pass along the URL. :) Thx man!

    http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_square.html

  15. Prapanch Nair
    December 10th, 2010 - 13:51

    Well absolutely NOT WORKING for me. I followed the above steps, and the flash player worked fine first time. But it is totally unreliable in that, 1 out of every 3 times I boot into my machine, the flash player does not work. For example, in youtube.com, when I right click on the video box, it says, ‘Movie not loaded’. Unreliability is worse than failure of the player. Ain’t it?
    I don’t have any other package related to flash other than the flashplayer square. I took notes of all other softwares running parallel to firefox to find out which one is clashing with the flashplayer. Still, I found the behavior to be random. Please discuss if yours stopped working after a while.

  16. Richard
    December 10th, 2010 - 15:30

    Super thank you so much, I am first time user of unbutu and now it works but how do I do with google chome? please help

  17. Himanshu Gajwani
    January 16th, 2011 - 17:55

    thx a lot for script…It’s working perfectly. :)

  18. yuri
    January 17th, 2011 - 03:00

    thank you!!!!

  19. sagar
    February 9th, 2011 - 19:04

    thanks a lot..

  20. ouanka
    February 20th, 2011 - 21:37

    Thanks a lot! I hope the firefox won’t crash again.

    By the way, there is an update of the plugin. ^.^

  21. brook
    February 21st, 2011 - 18:38

    very nice, thanks

  22. Stellare
    March 9th, 2011 - 18:47

    This was exactly what I needed. Thanks for sharing! :-)

  23. laztrix
    March 18th, 2011 - 12:28

    I’m using CentOS. I tried it with the fedora installer but it didn’t work.

    It says:

    libflashplayer.so
    Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it.
    ln: target `/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/’ is not a directory: No such file or directory
    ln: target `/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/’ is not a directory: No such file or directory

  24. Subito Piano
    March 23rd, 2011 - 08:09

    THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (now, why don’t you work for Ado…um NEVER MIND!!! :-d

  25. Romeo Adrian Cioaba
    March 30th, 2011 - 12:53

    i wish i did :) i bet the money there are good :)

  26. incorg
    April 20th, 2011 - 18:27

    Hi,
    Thanks for putting the instructions together.
    There is this thing I don’t understand. All the Flash Player comes as a .so file. I am not able to launch AIR apps. I think like, I need the executable version of the player rather than the .so. Any ideas?
    Thanks.

  27. Romeo Adrian Cioaba
    April 21st, 2011 - 22:59

    Hi,

    to launch AIR apps, you need to install Adobe AIR (http://get.adobe.com/air/). There are some detailed instruction on how to get this done on 64bit machines: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/521/cpsid_52132.html

    hope it helps!

    regards,
    R

  29. debu
    April 22nd, 2011 - 16:15

    great job

  30. Euri
    May 3rd, 2011 - 08:51

    YAY! YOU ROCK! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
    (This is my first time using Linux and installing this flash player was particularly a headache.)

  31. StorKuken
    May 3rd, 2011 - 13:50

    Doesn’t work.

  32. Tho
    May 15th, 2011 - 16:10

    Thank u very much
    You are pro :D

  33. Adam
    May 17th, 2011 - 23:16

    Thank you so much!

    I am rather new to Linux (or at least doing anything beyond regular windows things), so I just pasted the commands into openoffice and put them into the konsole and hoped for the best. It has worked marvellously, although I am unsure what happened to flash in the first place lol :)

    I don’t usually start and end a message with the same thing, but thank you! :)

  34. oceania68
    May 22nd, 2011 - 18:43

    worked for a bit in Trisquel 4.5 but crashed… and keeps crashing….

  35. oceania68
    May 22nd, 2011 - 19:31

    oh and you might want to update the flash file to the latest release… which is 10.3.181.14 :D

  36. Atul
    May 24th, 2011 - 06:57

    The script worked like a charm! Thank you very much :)

  37. Shelan
    June 3rd, 2011 - 06:48

    Thank you very much for the script. I think you can add the following url to wget which is the newest version of flash player from Adobe.Otherwise browser will block (Chrome) execution.

    wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
    tar zxvf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz

  38. mate
    June 14th, 2011 - 20:01

    Hey,

    Thanks for the awesome tutorial.

    I am on ubuntu x64 using firefox 4 and chrome 12. I tried using the steps you mentioned. But it still shows me as using version 10,3,162,29.

    Any ideas what I may be missing?

    Many Thanks

  39. Luis
    June 23rd, 2011 - 22:33

    many thanks!

  40. Nick
    August 17th, 2011 - 01:21

    New as of (16/08/2011) working fedora (works on CentOS 6 as well) script:

    #!/bin/bash
    # Script created by
    # Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com

    echo “Stopping any Firefox that might be running”
    killall -9 firefox

    echo “Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:”
    yum remove -y flash-plugin gnash gnash-plugin swfdec swfdec-mozilla nspluginwrapper
    rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
    rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
    rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
    rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
    rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

    echo “Installing Flash Player 10″
    cd /tmp
    wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
    tar zxvf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
    cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

    echo “Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it.”
    ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
    ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

    # now doing some cleaning up:
    rm -rf libflashplayer.so
    rm -rf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

    Gets flash working for Firefox and Chrome.

    Thanks

  41. Luis
    September 30th, 2011 - 23:24

    /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins doesn’t exist (Fedora 15)

    Where I am supposed to put the lionk ?????

  42. Barbara
    November 13th, 2011 - 17:08

    I am actually pleased to glance at this weblog posts which includes plenty of valuable information, thanks for providing these kinds of data.

  43. Dave
    March 10th, 2012 - 09:31

    Still works :)

  44. long-live-linux
    March 28th, 2012 - 21:14

    Very thank you for you awesome work.It`s brillant.Greetings from germany.Martin

  45. elicroph
    April 16th, 2012 - 15:20

    Merci

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