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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!