Installing Flash Player on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit
UPDATE 23rd September, 2010: I have created an updated script to download the latest beta release of Adobe’s 64-bit Flash plugin, codenamed “Square”. You can read more about it here.
UPDATE 7th May, 2010: I now have this working correctly from a repository. This solution will continue work, but if you want the ability to update Flash automatically when the repository is updated, then this solution may be better.
Why is it that Flash and Linux seem to have such a complicated relationship? Despite the large and increasing userbase, it seems that getting Adobe to recognise Linux is only slightly easier than getting Microsoft to recognise Wine, which, in turn, is only slightly easier than pulling a fully-laden oil tanker up the North face of the Eiger using your tongue! I had issues installing Flash in Jaunty and Karmic, so it wasn’t a surprise that Lucid would have the same problems.
I attempted to install Flash Player 10 from Adobe’s site. Everything looked good – there was even an option to install a package for Ubuntu 9.04 and above – until I was helpfully informed that “Package adobe-flashplugin is virtual”. The problem appeared to be linked to the fact that the downloads were for a 32-bit edition of Linux, whereas I’m now using 64.
A quick search turned up this wonderful shell script, which installed Flash Player perfectly for me. Here are the instructions on how to use it:
- Right click on the above link and choose “Save Link As”. Save it to your home directory.
- Close your web browser.
- Open a teminal window and type:
chmod +x ./native-64bit-flash-installer.sh
- Now execute the script by typing:
./native-64bit-flash-installer.sh
Both Firefox and Chrome run Flash happily now.
Flash running in Chrome on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit
Source & Credit: My Science is Better
It doesn’t work for me.
The script ran and the last thing it said was:
libflashplayer.so
Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it.
When I start Firefox and navigate to a page with a video on, the video still doesn’t play. There’s just a black rectangle with a small media icon in the middle and small buttons on the top. If I right-click and select MediaPlayerConnectivity|Configure, there’s a Media Players tab. The entry for Flash is /home/graham/Desktop/Kit
Same here.
Ubuntu 10.04 / AMD64 / Firefox 3.6.6 / Chromium 5.0.375.70 (48679) Ubuntu
@Graham
http://blog.mattrudge.net/?p=288 fixed it for me, as recommended in the UPDATE at the very beginning of this post.
@fertroya…thanks for your comment & helping graham. I’m glad one of the solutions worked for you.
@graham…thanks for taking the time to comment…hope fertroya’s tip works for you
Thank You.
It’s work for me.
both firefox and chrome
Works great – Thanks. Without guys like you, guys like me couldn’t have Linux – which is so much better than that ‘other lot’
Thank you both for your comments. It’s the great thing about the Linux community – everyone tries to help and support other users
This worked for me! Thanks, you are the man.
Great stuff – glad it worked! Thanks for your comment
I am so grateful that this worked. Knowing my luck the issue will arise again. So I will be sure to bookmark this!
I’m happy it worked for you. Thanks for taking the time to comment
Thank you so much, this was really helpful for me!!
Glad it was useful to you. Thanks for taking the time to comment
Wow! Thank you so much, Matt! (8^)
Thanks for that, it worked immediately
@Rex & Pedro – You’re welcome. Glad it worked for you. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Thanks dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Worked like a charm.
You’re welcome – glad it’s working ok for you
Thank you very much for this! I tried a couple of advises before this one and this finally worked, well done!
Received this error, please help
chmod: cannot access `./native-64bit-flash-installer.sh’: No such file or directory
thnx a ton man.!!!! this has been troubling me for quite a lot of time…..now it works perfectly fine….
thnx again!!!
btw I m new to ubuntu & greatly interested in it . So any suggestion how to get started.
Seems to have worked for me, and I don’t know what or where my home directory is, nor do I even know how the cut-n-pasted commands work. Thanks from the Linux neophyte.
Worked as advertised. Thanks
Thank you so much
I have been struggling with this for a long time.
This worked like a dream. I downloaded the script, ran it, and now I can watch all my favorite You Tube videos! It seems like every 6 months or so, an Ubuntu update screws up Flash videos on my 10.04 64-bit system. I wish the Ubuntu team would fix THAT.
Thank you for the awesome script and the time you invested to figure this out!