Brilliant!! Worked first time even though i forgot to close firefox when following install instructions

YES!!

Thank you very much. It works like a magic.

thanks for providing ubuntu software support

Thanks for the tutorial. Flash finally working fine on my 64-bit Intrepid Ibex.

One thing to add. Be sure that you get rid of everything flash 9 related. On my other linux computer after I removed nsplugin... I still had issues on flash pages with incomplete loading. Went back to synaptic and typed "flash" just to double check and there were a couple of swfdec plugins installed for flash 9 still lingering that nsplugin search didn't show. Once those were removed it was all good.

Open Sound System requires a 64 bit libflashsupport file in order to get audio to work. It's possible to keep nspluginwrapper but don't have it configured for flash.

Thanks for the tips for install flash on my 64-bit Intrepid Ibex.. Flash finally working fine with Opera.

rv65 seems to be right. I've installed this new plugin but sound the sound handling is blocking any other program who attemps to access it. The libflashsupport file, customized for OSS device, did not worked as well. If you have solved this issue, please post it!

anyone wondering if this works on fedora 10 x86_64, it Does! I did all the same steps ( for the most part ) and all is well!


idonrknowme

What a great, straight forward, simple guide! I've bookmarked this page and will be passing on the info to friends. I had given up hope of getting 64 bit flash working so easily. Keep up the good work. Simple guides like this for Linux newbies and experienced alike are a boon for the free software movement. Nice one!

The video is now playing, but I'm not getting any sound. I see someone mentioned I need a 64-bit libflashsupport.so. Any links to that?

not working at all for me. I followed the steps correctly. I am running 8.10 x64. Any ideas?

Same for me, I did exactly as it says, but it still doesn't work.

These instructions didn't work for me, but after searching the Ubuntu forums, I found that if you copy the plugin to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins instead it works great!

Thiago and other OSS users,

I have already have flash 10 64 bit alpha working sucessfully on OSS. I use Ubunt 8.10 amd64. This could work for other distros and OSS' versions. I use some 4.1 rc testing release. Making a 64 bit libflashsupport.so for OSS is quite easy.

http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Applications_for_OSSv4#compiling_libflashsupport

Just omit the -m32 argument and restart your browser. If you follow the instructions it works great.

where is the .mozilla folder? I spend like 9999999 years and couldn't find it.

I spent all day trying to get this to work using other websites including adobe's site. It took me forever to find the folder that firefox uses for plugins

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

so, then when i installed libflashplayer.so to this folder, i ran firefox and got THIS message: "LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library ... :wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

I'm a linux noob, but this website's tutorial worked. Youtube videos work perfectly. One thing to note, is that Adobe's website had similar instructions, but I didn't know about hidden folders. so when I tried to copy to .mozilla it said it didn't exist


Thanks for the tutorial!

Love it. nsplugin previous really dragged system in Opera (hardy kubunty, intrepid rc, very much so in debian lenny. Went to gnome intrepid and so slick. I installed in /usr/lib/mozilla plugin and /usr/lib/opera/plugin. WOOT

great!!! thank you

Did you ever get this to work? I just installed Ubuntu 8.10 and followed to instructions but I was also unsuccessful. I was able to get the other flash player to work in terminal, but I really want to try this one, if you figured it out please let me know.

Thanks,
Bronson

How do I install it in Yellow Dog Linux 6.1?

For colin: YDL is for PPC architectures... I don't think Adobe has a version for PPC...

i installed this a few days ago using this method, worked great. only one problem - my .mozilla folder also contained a file (directory? blue logo, sorry i'm new to linux) also called "plugins". it would not let me have both named "plugins".

i made the folder to put the Adobe file it in, and so Adobe is working fine. right now i have the pre-existing "plugins" file in that folder too, but i'm not sure if that stuff is working.

does anyone know how i can check? or know what to do about it?

Yesterday was my first experience with a linux installation (Ubuntu Ibex AMD 64). THANK YOU for the clear instructions...it couldn't have been any easier!

Doesn't work. Tried everything above and in the comments. Copied in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and in /home/kshitij/.mozilla/plugins and still nothing is working.

I did a few things.

I did these instructions, and it didn't work. So I read the comments here and copied the file to my /usr/lib/mozilla/plug directory. It didn't work.

so I made myself the owner of the file in terminal as root
chmod libflashplayer.so
chown me libflashplayer.so

retried youtube in firefox, failed again. so i went to terminal and as root ran a

killall firefox

seems a process was still running, but that command killed it. reopened firefox, went to youtube and clicked on a random video and BAM! success.

Thanks for the article! Hope my feedback helps someone. I would try the
killall firefox
or:
sudo killall firefox

I think that did it more than the ownership permissions.

Like Kshitij says, it just doesn't want to work in Firefox wherever I put the .so. And I tried killall like Omny_Devi says but there's nothing left to kill.

I also found a config file for Opera where a lot of directories are listed, where it searches for plugins. I put the .so in almost all of those directories and in Opera it also doesn't want to work.

No error, it's just as if I didn't have the .so plugin.

THANK YOU! it works like MAGIC

firefox closes itself whenever I come to a video now

Great super easy guide! Worked like a charm. Thank you!

Thanks for the best guide in noobalicious detail

adobe updated their Linux x64 prerelease on 16.12.2008, so maybe update your DL link above?

get latest version here (bottom of page)
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

Works like a charm...nice tutorial

whit this prerelease there is no need for installing the 32-bit version anymore!

thanx for the guide! just came back to ubuntu and found that 64 bit flash exists now.. dreams come true..

Great! It work perfectly! The first good tutorial for adobe flash player 64 bit that i found. Thanks!

i followed to the letter.. seemed to go ok, even copied the file to /usr/lib/mozilla plugin

still get the message:

Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.

i have gnash installed, will uninstalling this help?

not working for me.

i have gnash installed, anyone know if this poses a conflict?

before trying this i had installed "restricted extras" via terminal

thanks all

amd64 intrepid

Running Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, AMD64

After using Synaptic to remove the above mention package, I also, for good measure, ran:

sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-get remove ia32-libs nspluginwrapper

Then I followed the instructions above to install Flash 10 64-bit.

Pandora.com worked perfectly for streaming radio.
YouTube.com worked perfectly for video.

I'm happy :)
Thx

Awesome tutorial, didn't work at first, so I went back into synaptic and searched flash to make sure everything was removed. Flashblock popped up, and it seems it was installed for some unknown reason, but once i removed it flash worked perfectly. Thanks.

Awesome. Thanks very much.
Now I don't need to get Opera out every time I want to visit a flash-heavy page!

FINALLY! A SOLUTION TO MY "GREY SCREEN" PROBLEM FOR FLASH ON 64 BIT UBUNTU 8.10!!! Worked flawlessly! THANKS!

Many thanks for this. It works with Ubuntu 9.04 alpha 6 and solves a number of problems. 9.04 64 bit seems very slick but keeps on crashing with npviewer problems. Installing 64 bit adobe flash player and removing nspluginwrapper according to your instructions makes everything work perfectly, including sound. I have tried the 64 bit version of ubuntu over the last couple of years but have always reverted to the 32 bit version because of problems. Jaunty 64 bit with the new Adobe Flash player seems perfect. (it took 11 minutes to install off an SD card and boots in 19 seconds)

Thanks, man! It worked like a charm for Firefox 3.0.8 running in Ubuntu 8.04.

I am glad that you seems to get everything to work. I think a solved most of the problem but I am left with one. When I try to reach this " http://www.mtv.com/videos/the-hills-season-5-ep-1-dont-cry-on-your-birthday/1608283/playlist.jhtml " I am stuck. When I use my 32 bit ubuntu machines including one asus eee with easy peasy 1.1 rc2 everything is working perfectly. But when I try my 64 bit ubuntu installation I am stuck. I do not get the message that I need to upgrade my flash player but nothing happens.

I just installed the Flash Player on a Fedora 10. Took under 5 minutes.

I downloaded the file from the link in this Howto, and extracted it into /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

NOTE I had to install in lib64 and not in lib (without 64) contrary to what others have written before.

I have sound working without having taken any special action.

Fedora 10 x86_64, Mozilla 3.0.8 and Flash Player 10.0.22.87

Thank you to the author

As others on 8.10, I too had issues. I got rid of all flash references and downloaded the adobelabs version. Copied to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

It works now.

thankx for the info it worked right out of the box!!! thanx

I had tried everything with no good results however this really SOLVED my issue. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

Awesome, thank you very much!!!

WOW! thanks for the advice on killall firefox! worked great

I would like to say a big thank you for this tutorial, I have seen various other web pages that did not work this worked absolutely fine thank you.

I couldn't get this to work at first. I believe the response was that I didn't have access or something to that effect. (Yeah, I'm brand new to Linux/Ubuntu). I remembered having the same kind of problem recently, so I did the following and it worked:

Type "sudo nautilus" in the terminal. Enter your password.
To the left, locate and click the "file system"icon.
As directed in this tutorial, locate and click the "usr" folder, "lib" folder,and "mozilla" folder.
Right click and create a folder called "plugins" (without quotation marks).
Drag and drop (or cut/copy and paste) the libflashplayer.so into the "plugins" folder. That's it. Close the "root" window and see if Youtube works. Someone else here will understand what I did. If you like, please feel free to explain.

Thank You so Much! it works brilliantly!

Worked perfectly. I just upgraded from 8.04 to 9.04 and I'm surprised that, a year later, this remains an issue... especially when the fix is so easy.

Thanks!

Me too... but that's because 64-bit flash is still alpha :(

How are people getting this to work by placing the file in ~/.mozilla/plugins? Firefox plugins go in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

Place the file there and it should simply work the next time you open FF.

You are great, it is really works....thanks....

didnt work the first time.....followed comment 6 nd eureka......thnx a ton

YOU ROCK!!! This was such an EASY fix! Thanks for your post!

Firefox crashes on certain sites with flash. This for instance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/install

I have reinstalled the 32bit version

They should lern from this. Linux shouldnt be a hell should it.? You rock buddy

BRILLIANT!!

This saved my life

Doesn't work for me, running ubuntu 9.0.4 :(
Suggestions?

thanks a lot. Worked like a charm for my Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 . I'd had a hard time with this before I found this site. Thank thanks a lot.