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Install the new Adobe 64-bit Flash player in Ubuntu |
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Written by Han
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Nov 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM |
For many years, many people in the Linux world have been complaining about the lacking of 64-bit support for Adobe's Flash player. It seems that the waiting for a native 64-bit Flash player has finally come to an end.
Today, Adobe releases its first Alpha build of the 64-bit Flash player, version number 10.0.d20.7. Here are the steps to install it under Ubuntu 8.04(64-bit):
1) Download the .tar.gz file from Adobe, and then extract using
tar xf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
you will find a new file named libflashplayer.so in the same directory.
2) Ubuntu 8.04 originally comes with a 32-bit version of flash player, you need to remove it before installing the 64-bit version. To do so, type in:
sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree
3) Close any web browsers(Firefox, Opera, etc) that is running, and then copy the file libflashplayer.so into the directory ~/.mozilla/plugins/ , you may need to create this directory if it does not exist yet.
That's it! Now restart your web browser and you are ready to view flash contents.
More information regarding this release can be found in the official Adobe release note.
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