Installing The Adobe Flash Plugin 10 On A 64bit Ubuntu 8.04
Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme
This tutorial shows how you can install the Adobe Flash plugin 10 on a 64bit Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Although Adobe does not provide a Flash 10 plugin for x86_64 Linux, this is possible with a little script provided by queleimporta.com.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Update The System
Make sure that your system is up-to-date. Go to System > Administration > Update Manager...

... and click on Install Updates to install the available updates (if the list is empty, click on Check first to make sure your system is really up-to-date):

Type in your password:

The system will then be updated.
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:
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2 Install Flash 10
Now open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)...

... and download the script:
wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh
Then execute it as follows:
sudo sh ./flash10_en.sh
Afterwards, open/restart Firefox and type
about:plugins
in the address bar, and you should see a list of all installed Firefox plugins. If all went well, Flash 10 should be listed there as well.

3 Links
- queleimporta.com: http://queleimporta.com/
- Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
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Thank you so much!!!! This worked PERFECTLY
Amazingly Easy for a newbie, Did a ditro update from Intrepid to Jaunty, ran into issues with adobe, previous solution did not work for all sites like hulu, this is great, thank you!
thank you very much for this scripts! I use it for Ubuntu 8.10 (Linux 2.6.27-11-generic, GNOME 2.24.1) and it works fine. now i can to watch you-tube and others striming videos.
Hi,
I found the same script to install Flash Player 10 here :
http://meandubuntu.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/flash-10-rc-on-ubuntu-amd64/
I really appreciate all the tutorials you supply, but I always skip to the second page since the first page is just lots of screenshots which really are not needed.
This tutorial could (should) have been as simple as this:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/install-flash-10-ubuntu-linux-64bit.html
Hello,
how can I uninstall all this stuff?
I did it because only videos where playing but no flash at bwin.com or other betting sites. Now, nothing works. Any idea of how to remove it?
Thanks
this just killed all flash on my firefox. nothing flash related works now.
The preferred mechanism for installing Flash 10 on 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 is via the flashplugin-nonfree package.
Because he is talking about flash 10, not flash 9.
Because this is a tutorial for Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 which does not have a flashplugin-nonfree package for amd64... Hopefully it'll be in backports at some point (we can hope).
/-djs-/
try..
echo "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
I'm very glad having found such a detailed tutorial like yours, and flash is working how it never worked on my machine. As I'm a not so long-year-experienced linux user, I was very pleased to find all the screenshots and all the input for the terminal.
greetings
dagmar
Make sure you check out
http://queleimporta.com/the-easiest-way-to-install-flash-10-on-ubuntu-64-bits/en/
1st before running the script. The author of the script has made improvements to it. If you followed falko's instructions here and have now completely lost all of your Flash (and Adobe PDF for some reason). Just run the new script from queleimporta.com and it will restore your flash.
the most current version of the script is:
wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash10_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_en.sh
but make sure you check the website in case queleimporta makes more changes.
Of course you could always just use the 64bit adobe flash plugin:
Adobe release 64 bit flash for Linux
don´t get me wrong, but i don´t understand these kinds of how-tos.
flash "installation" is as simple as copying a file within a file browser. just download the flash tar.gz from adobe, untar it with file-roller and then copy the *.so file to /home/<your name>/.mozilla/plugins. if that directory does not exist create it.
Thankx for the info, tryed very clear and worked!
Firefox 3.0.15
Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/f...t.html#install
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