Comments on: Proper Adobe Flash Support on Ubuntu 64-bit

By: gaarai

gaarai — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:42:26 +0000

I’m glad that I could help.

By: horm

horm — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:12:52 +0000

Thanks for your help. I tried scripts and guides from several sources and none of them worked until this one.

By: gaarai

gaarai — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:49:49 +0000

You’re welcome david.

By: gaarai

gaarai — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:49:36 +0000

If you look at the details given in the Manual Install steps, you’ll see exactly what the script does. The most important bits are removing all traces of old Flash plugins and shutting down Firefox before copying the plugin to the final directory.

By: david

david — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:14:02 +0000

thanks!!!!!!!!!!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:22:01 +0000

I am not entirely sure how, but yes, this fixed my flash problems. Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit btw.

I have tried the distros and Adobes 32 and 64 bit versions through manual installs. Which exactly is the part in your script, that makes it work?

By: Dotho

Dotho — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:10:43 +0000

Just a heads up, Adobe released a new 64bit version (libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz)

Also for Ubuntu users, the proper directory is /usr/lib/firefox/plugins (at least for FF2)

By: gaarai

gaarai — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:43:41 +0000

Wow! A comment from Stephen Hill himself!

I’m glad that I can help Stephen. Hopefully other space fans running 64-bit Linux will have their problems solved with this solution.

By: drspace

drspace — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:22:44 +0000

Chris,

Thanks for solving our problem with 64bit Flash compatibility!

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