Adobe Flash Player 10 (Alpha) for 64 Bit Linux – Installation

Posted by Hodge on Nov 20, 2008 in Linux, Ubuntu • No comments •

Updated 24/02/09 for Adobe’s Apha release refresh 10.0.22.87

Updated 03/01/09 for Adobe’s 16/12/08 release refresh: The Gmail bug noted below seems to be fixed! I’ll leave the information here though, just in case anyone still has problems.

Updated 05/01/09: Looks great so far – no crashes, and no more annoying npviewer.bin chewing up all my resources!

Adobe announced the alpha release of Flash Player 10 a few days ago, for 64 Bit Linux. I’ve tested if for a couple of days – looks good so far and aside from a nasty bug when visiting Gmail (see below for work around), and a few other sites, which causes Firefox to crash and close completely (Segmentation fault), it seems to be fine. Installation is pretty simple – I had to uninstall the flashplugin-nonfree package installed from the Medibuntu repository first:

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper

Then downloaded the Alpha 64 Bit Flash Player 10 from Adobe Labs to my Desktop. Once downloaded, it’s simply a case of closing Firefox, unpacking the tarball, and copying the file to a location Firefox will find and use it:

cd ~/Desktop tar -zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

That’s it. Open up Firefox, and navigate to about:plugins – you should see the new plugin somewhere in the list:

The Gmail bug can be worked around by logging into the old interface: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1

However, if the Alpha release of the Flash 10 plugin is causing more problems than it’s solving, it can easily be uninstalled, and the 32 bit version reinstalled by running:

rm ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Personally, as much as I’d love to use the 64 bit plugin, I’m going to wait until it’s a little more stable – Beta or RC should be fine. I’m now using the latest Alpha release with no issues to report so far!

Something not quite right? Inaccuracies or invalid code? Didn’t work for you? Don’t like me using Ss instead of Zs? Add a comment below! All comments are welcome. Except spam, because spam is a bit crap.

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