Installing The Adobe Flash Plugin 10 On Ubuntu 8.04 (i386)

Submitted by falko (Contact Author) (Forums) on Wed, 2008-10-22 11:23. :: Ubuntu | Desktop

Installing The Adobe Flash Plugin 10 On Ubuntu 8.04 (i386)

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Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>
Last edited 10/21/2008

This tutorial shows how you can install the Adobe Flash plugin 10 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Although this sounds quite trivial, there are a few problems along the way, especially if Flash 9 is already installed.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Update The System

When I first tried to install Flash 10 on a not up-to-date system, Firefox did not recognize the Flash 10 plugin, although no Flash 9 was installed. I found out that you have to update the system first. Go to System > Administration > Update Manager...

... and click on the Check button to check for available updates:

Type in your password:

If there are updates available, click on Install Updates to install them:

It is possible that the system needs a restart after the update. If you see the blue restart icon in the taskbar, reboot the system:

 

2 Install Flash 10

Now that the system is up-to-date, visit http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BUIGP and select .deb for Ubuntu 8.04+ in the drop-down menu:

Then click on the Agree and install now button:

The Open with GDebi Package Installer (default) option does not seem to work if Flash 9 is currently installed (i.e., Flash 10 installs fine, but Firefox still recognizes it as Flash 9.0 r124, no matter if you restart Firefox, log out and in again, reboot the system, or even remove Flash 9 before installing Flash 10). I found that this problem does not occur if you install Flash 10 from the command line. Therefore we store the Flash 10 .deb package on our hard drive (e.g. on the desktop) by selecting Save File:

After the download has finished, open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal):

First, we remove the Flash 9 plugin (you can skip this step if you are absolutely sure that Flash 9 is not installed):

sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree

Then go to the directory where you've stored the Flash 10 .deb package (e.g. /home/falko/Desktop)...

cd /home/falko/Desktop

... and install Flash 10 as follows:

sudo dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb

Now restart Firefox and type

about:plugins

into the address bar. Firefox will then show you a list of all installed plugins, and you should see Flash 10 among them:

 

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Thanks!
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Sun, 2008-12-21 03:06.
Worked great -- thanks for posting this.
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Alternate Method for Flash 10 Support w/ Script
Submitted by AzureCerulean (not registered) on Wed, 2008-12-10 22:00.

I found a script on

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-adobe-flash-player-10-in-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron.html

 you can try the instructions there i used the script they provided:

 --- start here ---

 

#!/bin/bash
# Script  created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com
# Super minor updates by jason.melton[at]gmail[dot]com
# Updates by Alejandro Cuervo 3[at]cuervo[dot]net
# Released under GPL

echo "Closing Firefox"
sudo killall -9 firefox

echo "Downloading and instaling Getlibs for required libraries"
wget http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb

echo "Removing previous installs of flash:"
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 ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper"
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper

echo "Getting libs"
sudo getlibs -p libcurl3
sudo getlibs -p libnss3-1d
sudo getlibs -p libnspr4-0d

echo "Installing Flash Player 10"
cd ~
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

echo "Linking the libraries so that firefox can see them."
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

echo "Done :-)"
echo "You may re-start Firefox now"


--- end here ---

 

this worked perfectly for me.

 

you may save and run it as the non root user.

 

 

 

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Thank you, this worked
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Wed, 2008-10-22 21:55.

Thank you, this worked flawlessly. To the user above, make sure you also update your firefox to 3.x

 One thing I noted was that I just went to 'synaptic manager' and typed in "adobe flash" under search and it brought up the latest version of  10.0.12.36-1hardy2. I installed that and not the one from Adobe site and now everything is working OK for now

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Doesn't work, sorry
Submitted by Bruno Bernardino (not registered) on Wed, 2008-10-22 15:21.
Well, I've tried a few tutorials myself and tried some things on my own... nothing seems to work... weird...
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