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UPDATED Jul 23/2011

Finally we have a native 64bit Flash 11. It is working very well, I highly recommend it.

Before installing it, make sure that previous versions of Flash and nspluginwrapper are uninstalled.

Download it from:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11/flashplayer11_b1_install_lin_64_071311.tar.gz
untar, copy and link  libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins by doing the following in the terminal. (make sure you close Firefox first)

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/

Done!

Or, alternatively (you should always read and understand scripts before running them) you can do this installation just by copying and pasting the following in the terminal:

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

This script will install Native 64 Bit Flash 11 and will also remove previous versions of flash and “nspluginwrapper”
Note: If you just want to see the code for the script, it is available here:
https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash_x64_en.sh

EDIT #1: January 01/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.d21.1
EDIT #2: March 02/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.22.87
EDIT #3: August 02/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.32.18
EDIT #4: January 05/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.42.34
EDIT #5: February 11/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.45.2
EDIT #6: October 12/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.2.161.23 Preview
EDIT #7: July 23/2011: Updated everything to use latest version of Adobe Flash version 11.0.1.60

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Firefox, Flash, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu, Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: 64-bit, Flash 11, Ubuntu.

The VNC client bundled with Ubuntu, Vinagre, works half the time. Fortunately, we can also VNC with the installed “Terminal Server Client”

The “VNC” option with the default installation of Terminal Server Client is disabled or grayed-out.

To enable it you need to install the xtightvncviewer package in Synaptic or with the following command on the terminal

sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer

Done!

UPDATE: To also enable the XDMCP protocol option, sudo apt-get install xnest

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

Tags: apt-get, Ubuntu, VNC.

Now there are no more reasons not to install 64bit Ubuntu. First is was Adobe with their native 64 bit Flash plug-in and now Sun has released a native 64 bit Java plug-in.

To install the 64 bit java plugin on Intrepid 8.10:

1. Download the bin file here
2. cd /opt
3. sudo sh jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-22_dec_2008.bin
4. cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
5. sudo ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_12/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
6. Restart Firefox

Done!

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Firefox, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

Tags: 64-bit, Java, Ubuntu.

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.

Tags: 64-bit, flash, intrepid, Ubuntu.

If for some reason you want to restart your USB subsystem, there is no need to reboot. Just write the following on the terminal:

sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

Done.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Linux, Ubuntu.

Tags: Ubuntu, USB.