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

Well, I've tried a few tutorials myself and tried some things on my own... nothing seems to work... weird...

i've tried everything as well... and still doesn't work... worst of it... i don't even have a flash plugin now :/

Me too, me neither..

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

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:

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#!/bin/bash
# Script  created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba [email protected]
# 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"


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this worked perfectly for me.

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

Worked great -- thanks for posting this.

Thanks for the tutorial.  I had to use Synaptic Package Manager to uninstall the swfdec-mozilla plugin before Firefox would recognize Flash 10.

After so many hours, that's what worked. I had to go through all the steps in this tutorial but had also to uninstall the swfdec-mozilla plugin.

Thank you very much guys!!

Hi

thanks for thr tip. at the end I need also to remove the firefox plugin and reinstalled it. 

Orlando

This works great!  I downloaded the "install_flash_player_10_linux.deb" from adobe.com and saved it to a flash drive.  I ran it from there.  Then in the Terminal I ran the command "sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree".  That removed flash 9.  Finally in the Synaptic Package Mgr I clicked on status/installed/swfdec mozilla plugin and uninstalled it.  I reopened Firefox and it works!  I didn't have to delete 9 before I ran 10.  Go figure!

Thanks for help!

dis isnt workin:( i tried many times but somethind downloadin package manager comes n status doesnt moves :( it says that its not connected to net but i m sure im connected as i can open webpages...plzz help me

After installing the adobe plugin from the Ubuntu repositories, the only step needed in this tutorial was removing the flashplugin-nonfree (as the package installed was adobe-flashplugin or something like that). After this it correctly recognized the version of the plugin.

This is why Linux will NEVER be a popular OS. There are always scores of pages of instructions and tips. All slightly different. And often NONE of the "fixes" work. I've tried a dozen different methods of fixing Adobe Flash on a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04 and none of them work. I'm throwing out this crap and installing Windows so I can get on with my life.

This worked great. My flash is working again after it bonked out on the upgrade to Ubuntu 10.0.

 In addition to the steps above I had to replace an old version of the plugin elsewhere on the system that I had to manually change. Typing in "about:plugins" in firefox as you described helped as it allowed me to see where the old file was located so I could replace it with the new version of the plugin.

Thanks 

Hi, Thanks for the tip. I initially installed the the Adobe flash plug in through the package manager but firefox still didn't recognize the upgrade. Your tutorial worked for me!

I tried this today.  I got tired of the constant notices of plug-in failure, though, I found that refreshing the page often allowed the video to play, it was still becoming quite the hassle. 

 Thanks to you, I have the newest version installed, 10_1_r53. 

Thank you so much.  I am new to Ubuntu, and this was my first major program install through the terminal.  It is not as scary as I thought it would be.  Again, thank you.  

Thanks a lot - No need of complicated instructions - it works!!