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UPDATED, Finally! Adobe releases native 64 bit Flash 11 for Linux

tar zxvf flashplayer11_b1_install_lin_64_071311.tar.gz sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

wget https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash_x64_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash_x64_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash_x64_en.sh

56 Responses to “UPDATED, Finally! Adobe releases native 64 bit Flash 11 for Linux”

Arup Says:
November 17th, 2008 at 8:49 am

Thanks, its very important to do a complete removal of older flash plugin and nsplugin either via Synaptic or through apt-get –purge remove way. Otherwise use Alejandro’s excellent script here.



Javier Says:
November 18th, 2008 at 4:54 am

Thanks,

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rakesh Says:
December 1st, 2008 at 12:47 am

thanks for the tut man … it helped me ..

keep up the good work

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January 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm

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Rick Says:
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm

This is great and I really enjoy having native 64-bit performance. Thank you!

I had a minor issue with Seamonkey. That browser does not work with the 64-bit flash. I ended up downloading a copy of the 10.0 r15 Flash and copying it to the plugins directory but changed the filename (added ’64’ to the 64-bit version) so that both versions are present in the plugins directory. Now Seamonkey and Firefox are both happy.

It might be a good idea to make a copy of your existing flash as well. I’ve run into one site that does not work properly with either of the version 10 Flash plugins, but many sites that run just fine (and a lot faster).



Chris Says:
February 4th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

After several tries from a variety of web tips your script worked like a charm. Flash was working fine until just a few days ago. Thanks, it works great now……



Yaazkal Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Hi !

I don’t know if you offer “support” trough this web. But… I have Ubuntu 8.4 (64 bits) and that script doesn’t work for me.

I have tried to run it on the two ways but nothing happens. Even if I download the .sh file and execute it as root

What else could it be ? What can I do ?

Thanks !



ovidiu Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm

THX. BRILLIANT. I had endless trouble with the version that comes with 8.10 your script solved it all brilliantly 🙂



Harry Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 9:46 am

on a Turion x64 and Ubuntu 8.04 x64 … did not work



Reffu Says:
April 8th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

Thank you so much. Tried several other ,ethods but none worked. They would always give me that blank box. Your method makes it run so much better than anything else



roger Says:
April 21st, 2009 at 9:58 pm

You are my hero. Thanks.



johannes Says:
April 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm

And full screen problems? Everything but this is ok. Thanks.



fridley Says:
May 1st, 2009 at 7:02 am

Installed your latest script, but now Gmail wont open (crashes everytime). Think I might uninstall and go back to your old script.



Kelly Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

Script worked fine.

But, whenever I open bbc.co.uk/iplayer or gmail firefox crashes.



Kelly Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Seems even with -safe-mode set it seg. faults.

Created a new profile and bing, works fine no crashes on iPlayer.

So solution must be to create a new profile after updating to this flash.



Kelly Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 3:52 pm

OK, spoke too soon, still crashes firefox. Using Ubuntu 9.04 on Core2Duo, firefox 3.0.0.10 (adblock plus, downthemall!, googlepreview, xmarks addons).



alex Says:
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:54 am

Any chance you will update the script with 10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so??



Alejandro Says:
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:11 am

Script has been updated to use latest Adobe Flash version 10.0.32.18



Poobanks Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 12:44 am

Thanks for the great article.

I recently upgraded to Firefox 3.5.3 on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04 and could not get the Flash plugin to work. Thanks to this, I finally got it working.



Maj Says:
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:25 am

Done 🙂
You may re-start Firefox now and enjoy native 64 bit Flash!
jpruitt@winkypop:~$ firefox&
[1] 23112
Segfault
…

Thanks…



Matthew Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 9:33 am

Help!
I get this error message when I enter the above code:

matthew@matthew-laptop:~$ tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar: libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors



acuervo Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 11:33 am

Make sure of two things
1) you have downloaded this file, http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplay…
2) You are issuing the "tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz" command on the directory where you downloaded the file in #1

You could also, just paste in the terminal (ctrl+shift+v) the following command,
wget https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash10_x64_en…. && sudo chmod +x flash10_x64_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_x64_en.sh



psychophil Says:
October 7th, 2009 at 9:25 pm

Thought this had not worked after cutting and pasting the command line above. Fire fox crashed! Then remembered reading somewhere that a reboot solved the problem!!!

Add "Do a rebbot!" and the instructions works a treat!



Patrick Says:
October 15th, 2009 at 6:58 am

Thank you for your brief and very useful tutorial.

However I think one thing should be corrected – at least from what I experienced. You imply there are two ways to install the plugin; first (the beginner version) by tar'ing it and simply copying it to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder, or second by using the all-in-one wget command line. When I performed the first way to install it, it didn't work yet instead when I tried to use the wget version it did work. Just want to clear this up because it's implied with the first version that simply copying the shared library to the ….plugins/ folder will simply make it work — can you confirm this is true or not? In my experience this was certainly not true. After further examination of the 'advanced' wget version, might I have been forgetting to change the permissions and subsequently running the shell script? If that is necessary, then I don't think there are two separate ways to do this based on your tutorial – in other words, might there just be one way to do it? I ask because I got stuck on the first version for a bit, consulted with IRC folks, became frustrated and said what the heck, I'll try the wget line and voila! it worked.

Anyways, it'd be great to your analysis/opinion on what I experienced. And lastly, wow ! — no longer dealing with nspluginwrapper is a dream come true! 🙂 That process always sucked as I was constantly killing it for behaving badly.

Thank you!



acuervo Says:
October 15th, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Both ways are exactly the same, one is completely manual and the other by means of a script.
The manual part was missing one step. (linking the libraries). I have updated the post.
I have also removed the "experienced users" words as I really wasn't trying to imply there was a beginner version.



Marvin the Martian Says:
October 25th, 2009 at 1:53 am

Thanks for making my life a little easier. I am new to this system and want to give it a chance. So far people like you make it worth every effort on using this system.



acuervo Says:
April 7th, 2010 at 8:01 pm

You are welcome



Kedar Mhsawade Says:
October 30th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

Alejandro,

The script worked perfectly for me. But Ff 3 and Ff3.5 both crash for me when I used a site (safari books online) that uses the Flash content. It's not stable. After I browse a few pages of an e-book using the plugin, it invariably crashes Firefox! This is a shame. How can a plugin crash the browser?

I am about to redo the Firefox installation.

My environment:

Linux xxxxx 2.6.28-15-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 9 10:48:52 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.14, Copyright (c) 1998 – 2009 mozilla.org



acuervo Says:
October 30th, 2009 at 10:56 pm

Several people have told me about the crashing. Most of them have also told me that a reboot fixes that. I don't know why, but you could certainly try that to see if it helps.



acuervo Says:
March 29th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

Latest version should fix that



barz Says:
November 5th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

You're a legend since there was no libflash.so for 64 bits.



jakyra Says:
November 17th, 2009 at 1:30 am

Worked perfectly. Thanks!



Jeff Says:
January 8th, 2010 at 11:22 pm

Thank you so much. Having tried and tried various other "solutions" that didn't work – using the "wget" one seems to have done the job.
Thanks again.

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March 5th, 2010 at 12:19 am

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Reinis Zumbergs Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

great, thanks for this blogpost!
just went from 32 to 64 bit ubuntu karmic – meaning i have fresh install so i had to mkdir /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins manually. and i suppose it was reason why your automatic script didnt work(?) could need a little fix



acuervo Says:
March 29th, 2010 at 5:31 pm

that is odd. even a fresh install should have the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory. But i will look more into it.



paul Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 10:44 pm

yes, thanks very much. i was able to use flash before, but was not able to use MLB.com's audio stream. this enabled me to do so, but now audio doesn't work with flash (youtube, mlb.com, games, etc.). so, you got me halfway there.



acuervo Says:
March 29th, 2010 at 5:27 pm

a reboot usualy fixes that.



Giuliano Says:
March 20th, 2010 at 7:44 pm

Thank you very much! i
t's the first time i'm using linux and i was in panic with youtube!
Now it is running well!



kimmer Says:
March 26th, 2010 at 3:38 am

Works like a charm, thx Bro.



Josh Says:
March 27th, 2010 at 2:15 pm

I just installed the most recent version from your script, the script installs fine and works, but when I got to the website for Hulu and try to watch a video it tells me that adobe flash for 64bit linux has software restrictions and it wont play.



acuervo Says:
March 29th, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Sorry, I'm outside the US and cannot acces HULU.com. The error you describe is specific to hulu.com



abrek Says:
April 6th, 2010 at 8:54 am

Brave Maestro! 🙂



jod Says:
April 7th, 2010 at 7:53 pm

Thank you so much for this very useful tutorial. I just migrated from Lucid 32 bit to Lucid 64 bit. Your tutorial really helped me out! All is now working beautifully!



tim71 Says:
April 18th, 2010 at 5:47 am

BIG MISTAKE! It is a big mistake to assume, that flash plugin or the web browsers in common are the only applications for nspluginwrapper.

It can be needed even for the use of some non-native hardware drivers etc. There is NO NEED to uninstall it because the Flash plugin can be used by the browsers without the use of nspluginwrapper and without the need to unistall it if it is needed for some other purpose.



Brad Says:
April 19th, 2010 at 9:54 pm

Thank you so much. You have made what was a nightmare a much more enjoyable experience.



Charlie Says:
May 1st, 2010 at 9:32 pm

Thanks so much for this. I was starting to get frustrated at having to repair Flash Player again.



DJScribe Says:
July 20th, 2010 at 3:26 am

Ok, Alejandro has it right. Removing nsplugginwrapper and any flash pkgs via Synaptic then running:
$ wget https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash10_x64_en…. && sudo chmod +x flash10_x64_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_x64_en.sh

..gets Flash 10 working on Hardy like a charm. I'm running FF 3.6.6 so not sure if this will work on previous versions, but if I had to guess, I'd bet it would. I've been trying for months to get this running – excellent job, kudos and many thanks Alejandro.

– Scribe



aaaa Says:
July 26th, 2010 at 1:21 am

thanks really



Guest Says:
September 8th, 2010 at 1:32 pm

http://download.macromedia.com/ no longer works for me… anyone?



kazman Says:
October 14th, 2010 at 6:55 am

My flash wasnt working at all. I then followed these steps and now i can watch Youtube videos and such except that when I go full screen "adobe flash plugin has crashed" 🙁

Its very annoying since a friend of mine who has exact same machine as me went through same process and his works



kazman Says:
October 14th, 2010 at 7:23 am

It works, if anyone encounters the same problem, once the video starts playing, right click and disable hardware acceleration. Full screen will work then.



lucy Says:
January 29th, 2011 at 6:52 pm

i tried to install your adobe flash 10 to no success, any help you can give will be very helpful



Natxo Says:
June 28th, 2011 at 3:41 am

Really usefull !!! Thanks you very much from Spain…



ABHILASH Says:
August 26th, 2011 at 10:56 pm

It is proved that a 64 Bit system would create less bottlenecks as compared to that of the 32 Bit systems. By taking advantage of this factor, Adobe has taken a new step by releasing the 64 bit flash beta 11 version which was developed taking into account, the upcoming interest of the users towards 64 bit systems and corresponding applications. Adobe flash 11: ubuntu 11.04

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