Install 64-bit Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu (updated to 11.04) April 26, 2009
Posted by claudio in Uncategorized.Tags: amd64, flash, GNU/Linux, Ubuntu
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EDIT: Update to Flash 11 beta 1
EDIT: This howto –while referring to the directory “.mozilla”– works without adaptation for chromium (that reads ~/.mozilla/plugins).
Now that there is a java browser plugin and a working wine for 64-bit on the Ubuntu repositories, there is not much holding back 64-bit Linux on the desktop. Maybe the only thing missing is the Adobe Flash player. Most of the time Flash is just annoying, nevertheless sometimes needed. Luckily, there is now a Flash Player release for 64-bit Linux (however, still beta alpha beta but stable so far). I am pretty sure the instructions are identical for other Linux distributions.
To install it:
1. The beta of Flash 11 64-bit can be found here (the “Download plug-in for Linux 64-bit” link).
The alpha program has been opened and closed several times (was here and here), but at the moment of writing is open again: download the flash binary here. Because of the intermittent presence of the binary, I put a copy of the latest version here (the md5 checksum is 49b55c7eb8044453e5f6f2e4b3cb4084) and keep my fingers crossed for html5 NB: The screenshot is from a previous release, however the actual binary *is* the latest.
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2. Unpackage it using a terminal (with the assumption your firefox downloads into your Desktop as default):
cd Desktop
tar xvzf flashplayer11_b1_install_lin_64_071311.tar.gz
(The name of the tar.gz file may change when a new version is released, change accordingly).
3. Create a plugin directory in your $HOME (instead of a system directory):
cd
mkdir -p .mozilla/plugins
4. Move the file to the plugin directory:
mv Desktop/libflashplayer.so .mozilla/plugins
(You may safely ignore the other contents. Place the contents in ~/.local/share if needed).
5. Restart firefox. Go to about:plugins to see if it’s enabled:
That’s it.
Edit: Alternatively, you can use the graphical approach:
1. Download the binary (see the command line instructions above).
2. Select “Open with ” in firefox (you have to click on open to enable the ok button) and clck on OK.
3. The archive manager will open and show you the libflashplayer.so file.
4. Click on extra and a save window will open.
5. Type ctrl + h to show hidden files. Go to .mozilla (dubble click).
6. If no “plugins” directory is present, click on “Create Folder” on the top right and type as name “plugins” (without the quotes). Press Ener.
7. Click on Extract.
8. Click on Close on the windows showing the result.
9. Close the archive manager.
10. Restart firefox.
Thank you. This method is working for me. There is a slight change in the packiging of the tar now when expanded creates “libflashplayer.so”. ubuntu 64bit 9.04. Firefox 3.10
Thanks, saul. I adapted the filenames.
Thanks for posting – works like a charm so far
thanks this worked perfectly
Thanks! Worked perfectly.
please…..i want someone to help me!!!!!!!!
it’s the first time i am using ubuntu and i can’t understand what to do!!!!!!
can you please be more specific???
cool this is working
Spiros,
If you are new to Ubuntu, you should go for the regular 32-bit version first (Choose: 32bit version: This works with most computers). Like in Windows, most closed source software is available as a 32-bit version.
If you use the 32-bit version, just go to a page with flash (e.g. youtube) and Firefox will ask if you want to install the missing plugins. Choose the Adobe flashplayer. It’s that easy.
C.
Great tutorial!
Tips:
You want to put libflashplayer.so into /home/[username]/.mozilla/plugins
But of course the .mozilla folder is hidden.
To view hidden files in file browser: press Ctrl + H
To view hidden files in Terminal: ls -a
Hope that makes it easier.
Thanks Mohamoud! Good point.
how hard would it be for someone to make an installer this is fuckin’ gay. I like the promotion they talk about recruiting more people that have used microsoft their whole lives to a windows friendly ubuntu. bullshit. I been using ubuntu for over a year now and love it until it comes to something like this.. “get a newer computer ubuntu is better with new computers” i’m told.. so i buy a 64bit laptop. anyone wanna test adobe air? no I wanna watch my ShayTards Videos damnit. now i gotta reboot into my cobb webbed windows. deal with antivirus shit for about a half hour… damnit just make it work!
acridfusion,
Actually, no. Adobe 64-bit is alpha so no way ubuntu could out of the box include it (or an automatic remote installer). Open source and Free software have no problem whatsoever with using 64-bit processors. The problem are closed source application providing only 32-bit binaries. That’s why most people using Windows install a 32-bit Windows on a 64-processor. The same goes for Linux. However, besides some small annoyances running 64-bit ubuntu is a nicer experience that running 64-bit windows nowadays.
If you have problems running 64-bit Linux, do what most users do … install 32-bit.
Um it will not let me put it in there because i am not the root and i dont know how to unlock it
Never mind remember people read Mohamoud’s post
Not exactly working for me. I copied it and it worked fine once, but then after I restart Firefox it just doesn’t work. Tested twice.
Shows no play buttons no windows, no “Install flash”, nothing, just a big white space
Is /home/[username]/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so owned by your user?
I did all of the above i.e. creating the directory, and moving the file into the .mozilla/plugin directory and it shows the plug in active in firefox’s add on section but on you tube it still doesn’t work, I had 50-50 success at Youtube and my kids are frustrated. any sugestions?
Mmm. Youtube works here. Maybe an other plugin is installed?
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
If not, you can install Ubuntu 32-bit just untill adobe release an official (read non-alpha/beta) plugin?
OH yea I did it, Thx man
Im pretty new to ubuntu, but I like the advantages of a 64-bit operating system. This tutorial seems simple enough, but I get this when trying to unpack the tarball:
fruit@fruit-desktop:~$ cd
fruit@fruit-desktop:~$ tar xvzf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar: libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Can someone please help or tell me what do do
Sorry to make so many posts, but when i looked over the error that i was getting it was “No such file or directory”. Even when i used the gui interface to extract libflashplayer.so onto my desktop, then used the terminal command: “mv libflashplayer.so .mozilla/plugins” I still got “No such file or directory”. This makes me think that i am not in my desktop directory, i do not know enough about linux or ubuntu to change to my desktop directory if i am not already in it. I do know that this is what i have when i start terminal: “fruit@fruit-desktop:~$”
Hi Fruit
Change “cd” to “cd Desktop”
Awesome! I want to thank you very much. I run Opensuse 11, and this worked excellent for me. Thank you again.
Hi,
Thanks. Flash 10 now works on my 64bit jaunty installation.
This might be of help to other readers… I had to uninstall the default SWF plugin before this plugin would work:
“sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla libswfdec-0.8-0″
new filename again
Awesome! Now I can actually upload all my pics to Flickr!
hi im recieving same error message as Fruit, cd Desktop dosent help
thanks
I am having the same error has Fruit and Sam. I am new to Linux too. I used Sabayon 4.2 on my previous desktop, and everything worked right out of the box (in 64 bit). Flash is the only tricky part for me. I want to use 64bit Ubuntu though bc my new laptop has 4gb Ram. (Sabayon was having errors reading my xorg.cfg file – I have a new Thinkpad with switchable graphics and I don’t think Sabayon liked that)
Thanks
Try it this way:
1. go to the download pages and click on “Download 64-bit Plugin for Linux (TAR.GZ, 3.64 MB)”.
2. select “Open with ” in firefox (you have to click on open to enable the ok button) and clck on OK.
3. The archive manager will open and show you the libflashplayer.so file.
4. Click on extra and a save window will open.
5. Type ctrl + h to show hidden files. Go to .mozilla (dubble click).
6. If no “plugins” directory is present, click on “Create Folder” on the top right and type as name “plugins” (without the quotes). Press Ener.
7. Click on Extract.
8. Click on Close on the windows showing the result.
9. Close the archive manager.
10. Restart firefox.
this is how I did it:
http://queleimporta.com/en/finally-adobe-releases-native-64-bit-flash-10-for-linux/
http://queleimporta.com/en/how-to-install-flash-10-rc-on-ubuntu-64-bits-with-2-clicks/
thanks
Thanks Sam!!!!
I was not able to get flash player working on my system until I found your post.
thank you
Thanks, worked for me!
Although I put the libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
I typed “locate mozilla/plugins” in terminal to find my folder.
Hi, Claudio Thank you!!!
Using Claudio’s ifo I made some ubuntu specific instructions which may be of help to others.
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Install adobe flash player 10 on ubuntu 9
download 64bit beta version
1. Download it from here. http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
2. just click on file and the archcive utility will automaticlly launch. Click extract on the file libflashplayer.so. and save it to your desk top
move that to the mozilla plugings folder which should be
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
open terminal type cd Desktop
then type this command from the Desktop directory
sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
close all foxfire widows and restart
Mm,
This system-wide solution (needing administrator rights) does indeed work fine. However, I posted the user-level configuration as it works with and without root-rights.
Thanks for the alternative.
thanks very much!
Hi, followed all steps and firefox not recognize the plugin.
Excelente. Thanks!!
Thank you! It works
B E A U tiful. Worked like a charm, thanks!
Super thanks to Harsha July 22 post. Removing swfdec was the key for me. Thanks for ending my headache. Runs great now in 64 bit 9.04
thanks man! your a lifesaver!!
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thanks alot!
tnx worked like a knife on butter
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Thnx Sam, your link worked like a charm
ok this ain’t work for me, my mozilla shut down when i try watch videos that use flash (youtube ,etc) what should i do? any solution?
Thanks worked great.
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cute but, you can’t create file names with slashes what a waste of time so far
I want someone’s help
You Realy Owesome ..
this article help me much
very very big big big thanks
To everyone that installed OSS4 as sound driver instead ALSA on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) 64bit:
* The script published on the next link makes the sound of flash player work great !!
http://www.myscienceisbetter.info/install-native-64bit-flash-player-10-on-linux.html
alright, so i just did a clean install of 9.10.
when i go to a webpage with flash there is a message telling me that flash player is not installed. i followed the instructions in this post – created libflashplayer.so and put it in the correct folder (confirmed by checking through graphic interface). now when i go to a page with flash firefox quits as the page is loading.
i have checked to make sure that nspluginwrapper-nonfree and swfdec are not installed. checking ‘about:plugins’ in firefox shows that flashplayer 10.0 r42 is installed.
any suggestions on what else i should try?
A great big thanks!!! I’ve just spent ALL DAY reading and trying various proposed solutions, to no avail. Sometimes it seemed to work but the killer was always Potlatch – the OSM map editor.
So, 1. from Harsha (21)
sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla libswfdec-0.8-0
2 follow the article to the letter
3. enjoy.
This does not work. You have to move this file to another folder in 9.10. At least, I had to.
Move it to /var/lib/flashplugin-installer. If you have already installed some flash version, you might already have this folder and there might be enother file (mwrapper.libflashplayer.so) in it. You can remove this (or move it to you desktop for a few seconds).
$ sudo mv ~/Desktop/libflashplayer.so /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/
should do the trick. Then restart Firefox and reload the plugins list.
My problem was that I already had a flash player installed, but it did not work properly. I could, for example, often not click in the Flash applications. I was unable to start playing videos or when they played pause them or scroll to another part.
This x64 version works like heaven for me. Thank you!
thanks.. tried for an half hour to install it, but failed every time.. now it finally works
Wow! thank you Life saver!
Works without a doubt. Got it working on my first go
Thanks!
Needed this!
thats the one I needed worked like a charm for ubuntu 9.10 now I can run flash programs
thanxxxxxxxxxxxxx may friends you are the best in this net now . hhhhhhh thx
works as advertised…thanks much for the tutorial.
thank you..works like a charm
Thanks, you saved what little hair I had left.
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Thank you! it works very well
thank you very much…the tutorial wasn’t perfect as far as step by step but as a linux person…don’t really need step by step.
It worked excellent for me too, thanks a lot.
Kim,
Ubuntu 10.04
Muchisimas Gracias..!!
Thanks! Saved me an hour of work.
Thanks!
It really does work. The instructions could be a bit simpler.
I hope Adobe makes a normal way to do it soon.
Thanks! Grand respect!
One place of net, where i could really working links.
I used the graphical instal….
Thanks
Thanks, most productive guide out there, I wonder when hey going to get their apt channel install or something working for 64
@27. sam very easy just copy and paste one line. i love it. this is linux, and it was my idea
It worked out for me! But I just needed to enable it at the “Tools/Complements/Plugins” dialog box.
THANKS!
Awesome!!!!
Some of us are still new to Linux and need these kinds of tutorials!!!
Werner,
Luckily, this kind of thing is not an issue on the “main” ubuntu release: the 32-bit. Like in Windows, still most people are running a 32-bit OS. Still, while having a 64-bit machine, why not run a 32-bit os?
Thanks, it works for me. One change – my download directory writes files to /tmp rather than Desktop. HELP FOR BEGINNERS: For those new to Firefox and Ubuntu, if your file doesn’t appear in the Downloads directory you can find it by going to the downloads window and right-clicking on the file then choose ‘open in containing folder’ and it will tell you the directory where Firefox is downloading files. Also, for beginners, to start typing in commands you need to open the command console by clicking the Ubuntu symbol at left then choose Accessories the Terminal. You will have a “shell prompt” at that point. That is where you begin to type the commands (cd, tar, etc). Another tip for beginners, if you are still having trouble finding the file, use the “ls -lst” command to list the files to double check the name and date of the downloaded “.gz” file plus the “.so” files that gets created after you run the “tar” command.
worked great
Wow thanks!
It works for me!
thanks, appreciated
Thanks for this – solved some ongoing annoying problems
Thank you! My mouse refused to work on the 32 bit wrapper installed by ubuntu (flash video controls)… This native 64bit flash fixed it! I can now fiddle with volume, pause, full screen etc
You should have followed my other howto: http://nxadm.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/adobe-flash-missing-some-mouseclicks/
THANK YOU!!!!!
I may not be an end user but I am not good with .tar files… Thanks for the step by step!
THANK YOU!!
thanks to you I finally got it
Thanks!
Works as a charm! But newbies please make sure to enable the hidden files by ctl+h otherwise you will not find the appropriate files and folders.
Thanks so much its work, first time i use terminal , today i switch from window to ubuntu no idea how to use but your steps r so clear , its really help full thnx so much
I have no idea what you guys mean by Terminal, I just started using Ubuntu today. Can someone tell me how to open up this terminal thing. Is it under aplications, Internet, Terminal Server Client? Is that what you mean?
Acessoires – Terminal
Wonderfull, this helped a lot of people obviously, and this helped me as well. For that i have to say many thanks.
Nice touch!
amazing. i just got a brand new laptop and decided to throw away windows. everything worked fine so far apart of flash which drove me crazy not having any linux background. Thanks.
I had to put the library under /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins, than it works. I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 x64
Yes, this is a system-wide solution. However, I prefer a user-based solution e.g. for security concerns.
Thank You for the clear instructions.
Works for me! Thanks ever s much!
Thanks a lot! It worked.
Thxxxx =} works.
Works very well. Thank you!
Top resource!
Thank you
Thanks! It worked!!
thanks worked perfect
Awesome. Saved lot of time. Thanks
I couldn’t figure out why these instructions weren’t working for me until I accidentally found out that if you have gnash installed, you have to remove it before flash will show up in your plugin list. No idea why, but at least it works okay now.
Appreciate the tip! Working just fine for me.
Works for me on lynx 64bit. Thanks for the tip, I will spread the word! This has bugged me for a while.
been searching for sometimes, finally this one works for me Ubuntu 10.04 64bit. Many thanks!
Thanks. Worked like charm.
GRAZIE!
Il primo e l’unico sistema che funziona!
Thank you, first and only method that works!
… dimenticavo: anch’io uso Ubuntu 10.04 64bit.
… I forgot: I use Ubuntu 10.04 64bit.
This tutorial worked great, thanks.
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Thanks a lot! I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bits and Flash was running bad as hell, now’s smooth as heaven, very nice solution and approach!
Thank you. It worked perfectly well.
Thanks for tip! Works great on ubuntu 10.04.
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YAY!!!! i got it working with Chrome too. just copied that same .so file into my /opt/google/chrome/ folder … restarted Chrome, and poof, youtube works now.
THANKS.
Thank you! Perfect!
Thank you very much sir!
works..thanks
Kiitos!
I’ve crashed my head before
@ 10. acridfusion – May 11, 2009 … yeah bit old now … but LOL!! talk about gay bitchin like that !
Thanks dude. Just installed Ubuntu 64bit version. I extracted the .so file then created the plugins directory and then moved the file. All is working and I installed the Flashblock as well.
However, security issue kind of worries me. I didn’t do much research on it, so can you give me some background as I didn’t see anything that jumped out at me on the web or on Adobes website.
What are the issues and should I be concerned if I have flashblock installed?
Again thanks as flash is working fine.
Robbie: See this post for a safer alternative: http://nxadm.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/an-alternative-after-the-closing-of-64-bit-adobe-flash-player/
Thank you very much!!!!!!!!! I am a noob in linux and I tried to do the things other people said in other tutorials but I couldn’t get it to work. But when I changed the settings on my browser to download on my desktop and after I followed your directions it worked perfectly. This is the first time I managed to install something using the terminal. Thank you very much it is really appreciated when someone gives the steps and describes them fully so that noobs can also understand it.
Thank you very much. It’s worked for me
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this worked excellently with me!!!
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I love u man!!
Mine Dont Work
Did you remove the plugin installed by the software manager?
$ sudo apt-get remove –purge flashplugin-installer
Thanks! Worked perfectly.
THANK YOU! WONDERFUL HELP!
I had several issues viewing MegaVideo with FireFox 4 + FlashPlayer 10 32bits… but using the FlashPlayer P3 64bits works very smooth!
Thanks ! That works like a charm !!
Great, I’ve had problems installing Flash Player on 64 bit Ubuntu 11.04, but your method worked for me. I downloaded the latest binary from the Adobe website, but I now have version 10,3,162,29 installed whereas the latest version is 10.3.181.14
Hi I realize that there is a new version of flash, so i try to install it, but when i want to move the .so file to de .mozilla/plugins appear these command…
root@:~# mv Desktop/libflashplayer.so .mozilla/plugins
mv: cannot stat `Desktop/libflashplayer.so’: No such file or directory
I already check that the name of the file is the correct and i don’t know what else do…
Perfect
Works with ease on 11.04
Thanks a lot bro
Works for me.
Works better than the 32bit version on my xubuntu 11.04 with Firefox 4
Awesome Dude!! This worked great and has solved all my problems with Ubuntu 10.10 and Firefox 4.0.1.
THANK YOU… THANK YOU… THANK YOU!!!!!!
thanks! worked like a charm (ubuntu 11.04, ff5)
Sweet! Worked straight off (on Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha2), now I can watch BBC iPlayer, 4OD, Youtube and System resources concurrently on workspaces 1-4. Smooth video, brilliant!
Thanks. Doug / UK. (& AMD X4 barely breaking into a sweat)
had the latest 32 bit ver that worked on some video sites, but not all.
Was getting white rectangles that would skip around ala pack-man blanking out the video.
Thanks, due to precise instructions — THAT PROBLEM IS GONE!
using FF 5.0 / Ubuntu 10.10 on a 64 bit Shuttle KPC45
bravo.
excellent. thx
Thanks a lot made life so easy…great…keep helping
Waiting for the dowloading.
Thanks