How to install Flash 64-bit on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

May 1st, 2009 by alpho2k |

Flash is coming by default in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 repositories with the 32-bit version. Here is a small procedure to install the 64-bit version.

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What is Flash ?

According to Wikipedia : Adobe Flash (previously called Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform originally acquired by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications. Web site like youtube or dailymotin use this technologie.

Installation

We must start by uninstalling the current version of Flash installed on your computer if necessary as follows :

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer

Then, we download Flash directly from Adobe :

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

We then extract the archive and move the extracted file in the plugins directory of Firefox :

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tar xvf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Now, just restart Firefox to take full advantage of Flash!

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7 Comments For This Post

Autumn Says:
May 16th, 2009 at 12:18 am

Thank you for writing this up! It was quite helpful.
odel Says:
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 am

Worked out just fine! Thanks for the help!!
k Says:
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm

The current release of Flash for x86_64 is inadequate. It freezes frequently in Firefox and is incompatible with some websites.
Jashner Says:
June 21st, 2009 at 5:11 pm

I would extract it to /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins
V00D00 Says:
September 10th, 2009 at 10:10 pm

Yay. finally a method that worked for me.
JS Says:
September 19th, 2009 at 1:24 am

Thanks. . . It worked, BUT the Macromedia DL site has changed so this is what worked for me:

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

tar xvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
Andrew Says:
November 14th, 2009 at 12:24 am

Doesn’t work. Just doesn’t do anything at all.