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November 1, 2008
Installing Flash 10 on Intrepid, Ubuntu 8.10 64 Bits
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Adobe has released a NATIVE 64bit Flash Player, Please see this post
Now that Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10) is out, installing the latest version of flash 10 (ver. 10.0.12.36) is easier than never before, just type the following in your terminal
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Done!
Alternatively you can simply select the package flashplugin-nonfree in synaptic.
Hardy users, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, see this post
Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Flash, Ubuntu.
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November 1st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
[…] Users of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, click here. Users of Ubuntu 8.04 keep […]
November 1st, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I installed it but Youtube videos are just a blank box.
Google videos and others work fine.
Anyone else have this problem?
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Yes i have that problem. Not always but 3 times out of 10 when I click on a video in youtube I get a gray box, no video but the audio is playing in the background
November 4th, 2008 at 6:36 am
I tried the non-free plugin and it didn’t work right on all things (especially not games) but his 8.04 script worked great on 8.10:
https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/the-easiest-way-to-install-flash-10-on-ubuntu-64-bits/en/
November 11th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Tried all methods on my Ubuntu Intrepid x64, the repository method works fine for FF but not for Opera where I get a blank screen, so the best method stil remains your script and nothing else.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Problem solved, Adobe has released a x64 Flash 10, and guess what, Linux gets it first, download the libflashplayer.so tar from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html, untar and copy the libfkashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Make sure that previous versions of Flash is uninstalled. Thats all, both FF and Opera picks it up nicely and it works as good as anything in full x64 mode.
December 9th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
According to the chatter on launchpad, it’s buggy as hell on Ubuntu x64:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/286673
December 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Thank you, thank you for posting this script. Been struggling with flash issues for couple of months but too stubborn to go back to XP so kept searching for solutions, tweaking, reinstalling, etc. This one finally fixed it for me.