New 64-bit Flash Installer for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
I have so many things that I want to blog about at the moment, and absolutely no time to do it! Anyway, it seems that the most popular topic on my blog is how to install Flash for Lucid Lynx 64-bit edition. My previous script has been downloaded many thousands of times, and seems to work ok. Now, though, Adobe have released a 64-bit Flash plugin for Linux – codenamed “Square”. If, like me, your Flash plugin stopped working after a recent batch of updates, then “Square” could be just what you’re looking for.
I downloaded and installed “Square” from Adobe’s beta site here. The installation is smooth, apart from the fact that you have to remove any previous Flash player, and any symbolic links. Once the plugin is in the correct directory, you can re-create the links afterwards.
So, I’ve modified the installer script to clean up old installations, and download and install the “Square” beta release. It works fine on my machine and, if you want the installer, you can grab it from this link.
To install it:
- Download the installer script
- Assuming it was downloaded to your ~/Downloads folder, type the following into a terminal window:
cd ~/Downloads
tar xvf flash-square-installer.tar.gz
chmod +x flash-square-installer.sh
./flash-square-installer.sh
- Now try restarting your browser and see if Flash works.
I will update the installer script again as “Square” moves out of beta, but for now, this seems to be the best way of getting full 64-bit Flash working in Lucid Lynx.
Thanks a lot for making this public. Brilliant job on illustrating what needs to be done and for such precise instructions. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
best
Good work. Much obliged.
Your instructions are newb-friendly, very precise, keep up the good work!
Thanks for this…
Had to mod the script with the new link: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p2_64bit_linux_092710.tar.gz though.
Good catch. Thanks for that. I’ve updated the script now.
I just ran the updated script and I still no Youtube. Any suggestions?
What browser are you using? Are you running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit edition?
Thanks so much for the script and instructions Matt!
Since the update from Ubuntu 9 to 10 I have been searching for a way to get Flash working on my AMD64 based system. Instructions were clear, concise, and most importantly VERY correct!!!
Flash now works like a charm for another simple country boy (WV, USA)!
I did all that on my Asus eee 1015pem netbook, and now flash is working just fine, except sound doesn’t work, how might I fix that?
final solution for browser chrome and firefox in linux ubuntu 10.04 64 bit lucid lynx. Adobe flash player works perfect. Now i can see youtube
Thanks!!!! Man
thanks a lot! I have been trying for ages without success. great script!
@Her Barr , @Johnny You’re both welcome. Thanks for taking the time to comment
Works perfectly, and great instructions for those of us new to Ubuntu! Thank you so much!
nice job
most ppl do a poor job of explaining things
you are the exception
u fixed my computer on christmas eve
thank u
this not only made youtube work, but also hulu!
amazing…
Wow, sweet. Thanks a lot.
You’re welcome, Josh. Thanks for taking the time to comment
@phil huranus Glad it’s working for you. I appreciate the comment.
@fabrizio balsaq Happy that it worked out for you, and thanks for the kind words.
@Mr Kitty You’re very welcome. Thanks for letting me know that it worked for you.
Here’s a question, I’ve done just about everything, but my facebook photoloader just doesn’t detect my flash installation. It doesn’t matter what I do, it just won’t work. If you know a fix please help me.
Many thanks to you for this very easy way to install flash player on my ubuntu 10.04
Works great! Thanks a lot!
As a Windows user having my first go at Ubuntu (10.10), I have absolutely no idea what all those terminal commands mean – but they work! A welcome change after a set of Ubuntu update offered to me isntalled and then left my laptop for dead (on my second day of using Ubuntu, giving me ‘Grub rescue’ prompt, where none of the recommened commands worked either!)
What a shame Ubuntu *still* requires arcane terminal commands to make something as basic as Flash work properly
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this is way better than whatever it was i had, it uses way less resources, thanks a lot!
Thank you this has helped me sooooo much. This instantly made my Ubuntu partition the dominant one on my HDD. Now I can connect to the Internet and watch youtube! How novel?
Excellent! this is brilliant. You can’t imagine how much aggravation I’ve had trying to uninstall and reinstall before finding this script.
Superb! Had flash up and running in mere moments on my 64 system thanks to you!
Thanks for the comments, you’re all very welcome. I’m really glad it helped
Hey I know this is super late and you might not even read the comments on this article anymore buuuut, I just want to say this worked for both firefox and chrome. I much rather have flash running natively as opposed to using the wrapper. So thank you very much!
Thanks for your comment…I still check by the older articles occasionally
Works perfectly thanks so much.
Just wanted to drop another thank-you. Flash seems to come and go on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine and while it’s annoying, I seldom bother trying to understand/fix the problem. Decided to do a search today and your helpful post comes up.
And your script just did the trick for me. So, again, thank you for sharing.
Peace.
Hi Matt,
Great blog!
Your instructions work fine, but there seems to be a problem in connecting to the Adobe download site (probably because there is a proxy server at my company through which all download requests take place).
Is there a way to first download the Flash Player from the Adobe site, store it on my computer and then run your instructions?
Help will be greatly appreciated
Thanks!
Thanks for the comments everyone
@Newbie – you can download the archive from here If you then download, extract and run my script from the same directory, it should work ok.