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July 15th, 2011, 18:01 GMT · By Marius Nestor

How to Install Adobe Flash Player 64-bit on Ubuntu 11.04

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Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta on Ubuntu 11.04

The following tutorial will teach you how to install the 64-bit edition of the Adobe Flash Player 11 plugin on the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system.

Well, I guess you've heard the good news, that Adobe released two days ago, July 13th, the first Beta version of Adobe Flash Player with support for 64-bit Linux-based operating systems.

The following guide is here to teach you how to replace the 32-bit version of the flash player with the 64-bit one, on Ubuntu 11.04 AMD64 systems. It will work with other 64-bit Linux distributions and with the Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera web browsers.

OK, so let us get down to business, and replace that ugly 32-bit flash player installation from your Ubuntu 11.04 AMD64 edition with the newly released 64-bit version.

What do I need to get started? You will need to have a healthy installation of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and follow the steps below carefully.

Step 1 - Installing the Adobe Flash Player 11 64-bit repository

Hit the CTRL+ALT+T key combination on your keyboard and paste the following command in the terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash

Don't close the terminal window yet. Go to the next step!

Step 2 - Install Adobe Flash Player 11 64-bit

With the terminal window opened, paste the following commands, one by one, waiting for the first one to finish before pasting the second one:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

Hit "Y" when asked and close the terminal window when the installation is over. The 32-bit edition of the currently installed Adobe Flash Player plugin will be automatically uninstalled.

Step 3 - Verify the installation of the 64-bit flash player

You should now restart your Firefox, Opera or Google Chrome web browser. When it's opened go to YouTube or any other website with flash content and watch a video clip...

Adobe Flash Player 11 Beta under Ubuntu 11.04 with Firefox 5

Eureka! It works! Have fun!

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READER COMMENTS:

Comment #1 by: ohad w on 16 Jul 2011, 20:05 UTC	reply to this comment
Eureka indeed! thank you! nice job making it so easy

Comment #2 by: Pawel on 17 Jul 2011, 08:09 UTC	reply to this comment
Thanks! Now the artefacts in Flash items in Firefox are gone :)

Comment #3 by: ikt on 17 Jul 2011, 21:02 UTC	reply to this comment
Flashaid for firefox ftw :D

Comment #3.1 by: FastKC on 18 Jul 2011, 23:30 GMT

@ikt

Same thing like you, I use Flashaid in FF. For the moment, Flashaid isn't compatible with FF 6.0.

@Softpedia Staff

How to install Flash Player 32-bit in ppa?

Thanks in advance and have a good evening!

Comment #3.2 by: Marius Nestor on 19 Jul 2011, 07:53 GMT

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Comment #3.3 by: FastKC on 19 Jul 2011, 10:39 GMT

Thanks Marius Nestor.

Comment #4 by: laofzu on 29 Jul 2011, 02:01 UTC	reply to this comment
Easier way is to use Linux Mint so you don't have to even mess with it at all.

Comment #5 by: medical_intuitive on 18 Aug 2011, 23:14 UTC	reply to this comment
this is a good start on a tutorial but not for newbies. What is missing is adding when to hit enter; after each line? At the end? Also for newbies: what to do diff if you have no flash player and are installing Flash Player for the first time in 64 bit.

Comment #6 by: MaTachi on 25 Aug 2011, 22:02 UTC	reply to this comment
Thanks!

Comment #7 by: xrockzz on 27 Aug 2011, 03:54 UTC	reply to this comment
Thats great...Thanks

Comment #8 by: Baymen123 on 03 Sep 2011, 06:07 UTC	reply to this comment
thanks so much, finally an instruction that worked!!!

Comment #9 by: lucky on 05 Sep 2011, 08:06 UTC	reply to this comment
its saying E: plugin not found

Comment #10 by: nitesh on 11 Sep 2011, 02:43 UTC	reply to this comment
thanks it reall works

Comment #11 by: Sai on 24 Sep 2011, 15:46 UTC	reply to this comment
Thank You! Really appreciate your instructions. I've been struggling to install it manually from the .tar file I downloaded from Adobe site. Since I am a newbie to Linux, didn't have much luck with it. Again, thanks! Sai (from Hyderabad, India)

Comment #12 by: mohan on 17 Oct 2011, 07:24 UTC	reply to this comment
its not working it shows failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gummi/gummi/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-amd64/packages 404 not found

Comment #13 by: nabeel S R on 29 Oct 2011, 15:27 UTC	reply to this comment
thanka..its quik and comfortable

Comment #14 by: bobf on 24 Nov 2011, 20:29 UTC

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Had problems with: sudo apt-get update
Get:4 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-updates/main Sources [90.9 kB]
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found

As a consequence "sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer" failed:
E: Unable to locate package flashplugin64-installer

Comment #15 by: Mitch on 02 Dec 2011, 23:58 UTC	reply to this comment
Trouble beginning at step one... "Error: can't find signing_key_fingerprint at https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~sevenmachines/+archive/flash" Is sevenmachines still legitimate? Why can't it come straight from the Adobe site?

Comment #15.1 by: lennie318 on 24 Dec 2011, 20:03 GMT

Had the same problem. Ended up using synaptic.

Comment #15.2 by: radio on 04 Jan 2012, 09:54 GMT

There is a new procedure published for 11.10. But I do not want to publish a link, because...
1. you never know
2. you might see this posting while using Ubuntu 11.12 (and a new procedure might be published in the meantime, somewhere)
3. I object the way, that we are chased around. Free software or not.

Comment #16 by: skybinary on 06 Jan 2012, 18:22 UTC

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there is a whole heap of fail with adobes update for chrome,
1. google chrome in katya has determined flash player is out of date.
2. the provided link fails in sooo many ways
2a. adobe dont offer a download for katya
2b. adobe/chrome wrongly detects the browser to be firefox,wtf?
2c. using the rpm link does nada
3. this post doesnt help either as step one results with Error: can't find signing_key_fingerprint at htblah blah blah, great work adobe/chrome (NOT)

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