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.
Install Adobe Flash Player 10 on Ubuntu 64bit
UPDATE: Native Adobe 64bit Flash Player has been released.
I have put together a small tutorial on how to install the native flash player 10 64bit plugin for linux.
Adobe recently launched Flash Player 10 Beta codenamed "Astro". Great news, as it supports a bunch of new features, but as usually nothing yet for the 64 bit users. I'm going to show you how to get flash player 10 running on Ubuntu 64bit using nspluginwrapper. Before doing anything in the terminal make sure you close Firefox else you might not get the expected result.
1. Make sure you don't have any other flash plugin installed on your system:
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
1.1 To be sure we don't have any other old flash libs let's cleanup the folders where it usually resides:
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
2. Install ia32-libs and latest nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper
3. Download the latest flash player from Adobe Labs and extract it:
cd ~
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
tar zxvf flashplayer10_install_linux_051508.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/
4. Use nspluginwrapper to install the plugin and link it to firefox
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
EDIT: here is how to install flash player 10 on 64bit systems for Liferea and Vuze
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/
5. Start Firefox and type in the address bar about:plugins and press enter. You should get a result similar to this one:
6. Go to http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/index.html and test the new features.
EDIT: if you are lazy by nature, you can just grab install_flash_player_10_ubuntu64bit, a small script i put together. Make it executable (chmox +x install_flash_player_10_ubuntu64bit) and run it in terminal. It will kill ask you for root password the kill any Firefox you might have running and install the flash player 10
NOTE: for the new and improved script follow this URL: http://meandubuntu.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/flash-10-rc-on-ubuntu-amd64/