Installing Flash Player 9 On 64Bit Linux (x86_64)

Want to support HowtoForge? Become a subscriber!

Installing Flash Player 9 On 64Bit Linux (x86_64)

Someone said, Flash Player 9 doesn't run on 64 bit Linux, but sure it does... and you can install it, just follow the simple steps below.

If you can't view or open Flash charts or are not able to play Flash in your browser, follow the simple steps to install it on 64 bit Linux machines.

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

tar -zxf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins/

mv install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer.xpt install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

nspluginwrapper -i ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Close all Firefox instances and restart Iceweasel/Firefox/whatever.

Enjoy all x64 bit uesrs.......

For more details see the blog http://shahjapan.blogspot.com.

add comment |

view as pdf |

Please do not use the comment function to ask for help! If you need help, please use our forum.
Comments will be published after administrator approval.

Hello and thanks 4 the

Submitted by isaac (not registered) on Fri, 2008-09-26 02:04.

Hello and thanks 4 the tutorial (sorry, my english is terrible) lo probe y trabaja de maravilla

nunca digas no puedo.....

reply |

view as pdf

32 bit firefox workaround

Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Wed, 2008-09-17 05:35.

I read somewhere that you could just install the 32 bit version of firefox. Is this a good workaround?

reply |

view as pdf

Re: 32 bit firefox workaround

Submitted by shahjapan (registered user) on Sun, 2008-10-05 06:01.

There is nothing like, 64 bit adobe flash player.

They haven't released for 64 bit, I guess.

reply |

view as pdf

Doesn't seem to work for me...

Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Mon, 2008-09-15 03:20.

I've been having issues with Flash on my x64 box (running Ubuntu 8.04 on an Opteron). Anyway, this guide fails at the point when I'm meant to execute the mv of the file that's been extracted. The wget works fine, but the unzipped package includes a flashplayer-installer script, not the flashplayer.xpt I'm expecting to find. When I attempt to execute the flash installer, I get this error.

# ./flashplayer-installer

ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
Adobe Flash Player installer.

That said I'd really be pleased if I was able to get flash working in Firefox on this box. Let me know if you're able to get around this.

Linux 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

reply |

view as pdf

Re: Doesn't seem to work for me...

Submitted by sundar (not registered) on Fri, 2010-07-09 20:01.

Easy steps:

Use the steps in terminal window...........

(1) Remove currently installed versions of Flash.

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla

(2)Download the 64-bit Flash plugin and extract that file:

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz && tar xvfz libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

(3)Put the file into /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer64.so or /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer64.so or (or in ~/.mozilla/plugins for a single-user install):

sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer64.so

(or)

sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer64.so

(4)mk into it.

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer

(5)Install the link (60 is the priority, you can use any value 0-100)

sudo update-alternatives –install /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so xulrunner-addons-flashplugin /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer64.so 60

Restart the firefox .. now check youtube.

All the best.........

reply |

view as pdf

Re: Doesn't seem to work for me...

Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Thu, 2008-09-18 18:41.

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
tar -zxf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins/
mv install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
/usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/npconfig -i ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

reply |

view as pdf

Re: Re: Doesn't seem to work for me...

Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Fri, 2009-03-06 13:57.

Thank you sooooooooooo much!

reply |

view as pdf

Re: Re: Doesn't seem to work for me...

Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Mon, 2008-09-22 11:49.

You might also try

5. /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/linux/npconfig -i ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

in case step 5 throws the error