By default, the Flash player in the repositories is a 32-bit version of Flash. This version does not work properly on 64-bit installations of Ubuntu 10.04.
Someone made a bash script to automate the process of installing Flash Player 10 to Ubuntu. All you have to do is to type or copy-paste the following in the Terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal):
wget http://conradmiguel.com/install-flash.sh
chmod +x install-flash.sh
./install-flash.sh
It will ask for your password. Just provide your password. Restart Firefox and enjoy your Flash Player 10!
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Thank you, it worked
Im glad I found your site. This is what I’m planning to do tonight, install Flash Player 10 in my newly installed Ubuntu 10.04.
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Thanks!
Wery thankfull!
Thanks works a treat
thanks a lot. works for me. muchas gracias…
Thanks Guys!!!
Works fine.
Works for me. Thankyou.
I can not install flash player with this command. In my machine it says
wget: unable to resolve host address `conradmiguel.com’
can you plz help?
Galing. Salamat!
THANK YOU!!! THIS WORKS!!!
the simplest way I have found and the only way i have found to work!
the simplest way. thnx great one
It Works!!, Freaking Awesome!
Wonderful, thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot,
So long trying to install player. At last!!!
It works just fine!
You are the man, my man!!!
Thanks
thank you so much it works great.
could you make a tutorial to learn an make this, thanks.
Thanks so much! It worked like a charm. ^_^
-Reyn
Cool
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64 bit flash player at last, thank you so much!!
Thank you very much for let available this nice script. Before this procedure I was getting a lot of errors in the terminal every time I open Firefox and only your script did the job to fix the things.
Thank you again !
Thank you very much!
thank you very much …
Thanx man! Works perfectly, even uninstalls anything that I have tried to do before with flash
I tried the fix but get this message
Resolving conradmiguel.com… failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `conradmiguel.com’
HELP!!
Resolving conradmiguel.com… 64.22.96.76
Connecting to conradmiguel.com|64.22.96.76|:80…
but could not connect…
I did was successful on doing what you suggested above, but I still can’t watch YouTube videos. I then tried to install flashplayer from the adobe site and I get the following error: “Error: Conflicts with the installed package ‘flashplugin-installer’”
How do I reverse what I did? Can I uninstall it, please help!
thank you so so so so so so so so so so much!!!! you wouldn’t believe how long i spent on this, then one script works like magic!!
You saved my day guy ! Thanks !
Thank you very much!! saved me a headache
Thank you so much! Adobe’s website was useless…
Thanks a lot!! Amazing script!! Simple but powerful!!
Awesome, I was just about to downgrade to 32 bit so that flash would be easier. Since I have 4 gigs of RAM that would’ve sucked. THANK YOU SO MUCH
Thanks a lot ! It worked !
To OP, hope you don’t mind. Purge if you would rather not include.
For those that have not been able to get the script to work:
1)The reason it fails is that it appears that the file libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz is not on the Adobe server from time to time. Do a search it is findable on other sites. I for example found a copy at 4shared.com.
2) Down load the file once found. It will be in your Downloads directory. Leave it there.
3) Move the install-flash.sh script to the Downloads directory.
4) Open Mousepad as root — sudo mousepad &
at the command line.
5) You need to comment out these two lines —
cd ~
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
to look like this —
#cd ~
#wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
then save the file. Exit out of mousepad.
6) Rerun the script. It worked for me with those two changes on the first try.
To the Geek Brewery and How-To Geek, a well thought out script. Too bad Adobe can’t seem fit to keep their file contents straight.
didnt work for me
…it looks like the file is no longer there??
404 not found for me
thanks
Great dude! At last!
AWESoME!!!
I am glad to find FILIPINO Ubuntu geeks. I am an Ubuntu user, but I am not as geek as you are.
did not work some one help!
the flash plugin was moved.
the new installation script is :
#!/bin/bash
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-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
tar zxvf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.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 flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
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