Comments on: Install native 64bit Flash Player 10 on Linux

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:08:52 +0000

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By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:24:41 +0000

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

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

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:21:49 +0000

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

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:33:58 +0000

many thanks!

By: mate

mate — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:01:52 +0000

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

By: Shelan

Shelan — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:48:13 +0000

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

By: Atul

Atul — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:57:46 +0000

The script worked like a charm! Thank you very much

By: oceania68

oceania68 — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:31:01 +0000

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

By: oceania68

oceania68 — Sun, 22 May 2011 15:43:53 +0000

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

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:16:39 +0000

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!