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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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  1. katerina
    September 2nd, 2009 - 14:59

    Really thank you for the advice!!Very helpful!Keep up the good work!

  2. Romeo Adrian Cioaba
    September 2nd, 2009 - 15:40

    Glad this was helpful for you, katerina :)

  3. eltxetxu
    September 3rd, 2009 - 09:31

    thanks all right, very, very gooooooood

  4. newtoubuntu
    September 4th, 2009 - 18:30

    i followed your instructions from echo “Installing Flash Player 10″ (skipped everything before that and had firefox running the same time) and it installed fine on latest version of ubuntu 64 :D

    THANK YOU !!!!!! everyone should do this on their first install of ubuntu 64:)

    (only problem i had was with entering my password… caps lock was on and i didnt know it:@)

  5. needmorecowbell
    September 4th, 2009 - 22:31

    Awesome! Thank you so much. The Bash script worked like a charm.

  6. el_b
    September 9th, 2009 - 05:29

    Not all distros use dpkg/sudo, including Slackware, Fedora, SuSE, etc.

  7. cirovladimir
    September 9th, 2009 - 07:25

    Thank you, it really helped.

  8. Uwan
    September 11th, 2009 - 16:55

    I’m using openSUSE in my laptop. I tried your method to install flash player, but it doesn’t work. I had to create new folders, because they were not in the /usr/lib/.

    go-linux-go:/usr/lib # mkdir mozilla
    go-linux-go:/usr/lib # mkdir mozilla/plugins
    go-linux-go:/usr/lib # mkdir firefox-addons
    go-linux-go:/usr/lib # mkdir firefox-addons/plugins
    go-linux-go:/usr/lib # mkdir xulrunner-addons
    go-linux-go:/usr/lib # mkdir xulrunner-addons/plugins

    However I made two softlink as you mentioned.

    go-linux-go:/usr/lib # ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
    go-linux-go:/usr/lib # ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

    and I got the result ,

    uwan@go-linux-go:/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins> ls -l
    total 0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2009-09-11 18:59 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

    uwan@go-linux-go:/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins> ls -l
    total 0
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2009-09-11 19:01 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

    but flash player does not work in youtube.com

    can you help me, please?

  9. Tyrone
    September 15th, 2009 - 14:29

    Props for fine simple script for install 64 bit flash on linux. No more ndiswrapper for me.

  10. David
    September 15th, 2009 - 14:35

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

  11. Helix
    September 19th, 2009 - 04:25

    Thanks for the excellent post, the flash player is now version libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

  12. peterva
    October 4th, 2009 - 12:46

    Awesome, script worked like a charm, I’ve been fooling around with this issue for quite a while :)

  13. David V.
    October 8th, 2009 - 03:13

    omg! you’re awesome, thank you so much for making this work! the shell script worked perfectly to get my flash working in fullscreen on a Kubuntu 9.04 64bit install. You’re a pro and I really appreciate the script. Cheers,

    -dv-

  14. Valeriu
    October 16th, 2009 - 00:42

    Hello Romeo!

    I have F11 64-bit and I want to install the Flash plugin. The wget command doesn’t work for me:

    [vali@localhost ~]$ wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
    –2009-10-15 23:37:44– http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
    Rezolvare download.macromedia.com… 88.221.35.191
    Connecting to download.macromedia.com|88.221.35.191|:80… conectat.
    Cerere HTTP trimisă, se aşteaptă răspuns… 404 Not Found
    EROARE 2009-10-15 23:37:45 404: Not Found.

    Do you have any ideas?

  15. Valeriu
    October 16th, 2009 - 01:05

    Problem solved.
    Adobe released another version of libflashplayer and changed the name. You can find it here:
    http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

  17. Udo
    October 19th, 2009 - 21:46

    Just ran the script and succeeded in seconds. Many thanks for this.
    Does the same method work for Epiphany as well?

  18. jimbo
    October 21st, 2009 - 16:15

    That worked awsome.

  19. DJ
    October 24th, 2009 - 19:52

    Great! The skript worked perfect on my Ubuntu 9.04. Thank you!

    DJ

  20. Guilherme Bellia
    October 25th, 2009 - 18:19

    y0 u’re G3N1U5

    worked PERFECT

    epic epic epic

    congrats dude you rule the world now ;)

  21. Jaša B.
    October 26th, 2009 - 20:40

    Romeo, thanks a lot!

    I have taken your script and modified it so that it automagically installs the latest version. I hope you don’t mind! It’s available on my blog: http://constantcuriousity.blogspot.com/2009/10/automatic-adobe-flash-on-amd64.html

  22. andré
    November 3rd, 2009 - 12:41

    Had a flash problem quite a while and didn‘t find a solution but with your script everything works fine! Thanks a lot! :)

    Oh, and btw it works in Ubuntu 9.10.

  23. Anna
    November 6th, 2009 - 21:48

    thanks a lot!! it worked just at the first try ;)

  24. lextori
    November 9th, 2009 - 00:55

    I tried your script in 9.10 and it appears to create an error crashing at any site with flash. Help on troubleshooting this and getting it to work would be awesome.

  25. Romeo Adrian Cioaba
    November 11th, 2009 - 01:58

    I installed a clean ubuntu karmic koala 9.10 and the script worked flawless for me. Did you installed any other plugins for FF that might break FF in conjunction with flash?

  26. timp
    November 11th, 2009 - 14:19

    The url seems to have changed, I got 404, the new url, which worked for me was
    http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

    thankyou for this.

  27. Johnny
    November 13th, 2009 - 15:41

    Thank you very much, this script was very helpful. And by the way, working fine for my karmic koala 9.10 just right now, smoothly.

  28. Tim
    November 19th, 2009 - 17:23

    Finally got it working on Jaunty! Thanks, buddy!

  29. Dan Vines
    November 20th, 2009 - 13:31

    :) thank you, worked fine !

  30. William
    November 22nd, 2009 - 22:49

    Thanks alot, this script helped, couldn’t get flash working on my desktop, but it was working great on my laptop. this script fixed my Karmic Koala 9.10 on my desktop. Laptop is 32bit….lol. I just figured out why it worked fine.

  31. Pete
    November 27th, 2009 - 03:30

    Just wanted to say “thanks” for your time and effort. The Ubuntu script worked perfect on my 9.10 64 bit version.

    Best regards,

  32. Daniel
    November 27th, 2009 - 19:38

    Thanks again!

  33. Soheil
    December 2nd, 2009 - 09:09

    Thank you,

    I am using Karmic Koala with 2.6.31-15 kernel. Everything is okay. Good news is that I can now run heavy weight flash applications…

  34. Romeo Adrian Cioaba
    December 2nd, 2009 - 13:11

    Glad this script is still helping people :)

    OpenSource FTW!!

  35. jake
    December 3rd, 2009 - 21:06

    Thanks for your instructions and to helix for the latest version.

  37. -Hades-
    December 5th, 2009 - 09:06

    excelente.. funciona 100% en ubuntu 9.10
    saludos

  38. Beavie
    December 9th, 2009 - 18:53

    On december 8. they have released new version 10.0.42.34. Can you fix this to your script?

    Thanks

    http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

  39. Ian
    December 10th, 2009 - 02:25

    This worked for me but had some very weird side effects. I lost all of my emails and the settings for evolution, all the videos in my videos folder, and a seemingly random bunch of documents from the documents folder. Any ideas why?

  40. Romeo Adrian Cioaba
    December 10th, 2009 - 19:48

    Ian,

    the script should not do that, as you can see for yourself if you check it out. You lost all those files from another source.

    Regards,
    R

  41. Romeo Adrian Cioaba
    December 10th, 2009 - 19:49

    Updated the script!

    Thanks for the tip

  42. LeRoy
    December 11th, 2009 - 04:12

    Great! Fix my flash problem – I was about to install the 32bit version of Ubuntu! this is great! Thanks.

  43. Johan
    December 13th, 2009 - 22:53

    Thank you! The only way I have found to get Adobe Flashplayer working on Ubuntu Linux 9.19 x64! Thanks again!

  44. fix
    December 14th, 2009 - 12:40

    thanks man! your script worked just fine! have a nice day.

  45. Javsch
    December 16th, 2009 - 03:18

    if you have Fedora 12 just delete from the script:

    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/

    and just copy:

    cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

  46. KenW
    December 16th, 2009 - 05:43

    Thanks!

    Your shell script worked nicely for Ubuntu 9.10 x64 on a Dell 1420 laptop.

    It’s a great blessing that you’ve made the effort to not only find a fix, but you’ve gone to the trouble to codify and publish it.

    Thanks again,
    Ken

  47. Henrique Sant'Anna
    December 17th, 2009 - 22:34

    To everyone that installed OSS4 as sound driver instead ALSA on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala):
    * The script published on this page makes the sound of flash player work great !!

    Thank you very much!

  48. neil
    December 19th, 2009 - 00:07

    GENIUS! Thanks so much! Worked perfectly.

  49. Yabaku
    December 20th, 2009 - 13:37

    Dude thank you very much. Now my 64 bit flash plugin under Firefox isn’t choppy anymore. Thank you very much… Keep it up!

  50. DartJulius
    December 21st, 2009 - 08:08

    Thank you, Worked perfectly.

    I am using Karmic Koala with 2.6.31-16-generic kernel. Everything is okay. Your script worked just fine!
    Thanks so much!

    Lo use en Karmic Koala con kernel 2.6.31-16-generic. Todo salió bien. Tu script funcionó perfecto!
    Muchas gracias.

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