Back in the day if you were running a 64 bit version of Linux, Adobe’s Flash plugin was a source of much pain and agony. For some it worked ok, others it was just plain unreliable. But we dealt with it because it was such a necessity with so many of the sites that depended on it. Today it’s not so bad, Adobe has for a while now made a native 64 bit plugin available. However it is still in “beta”, so it’s still not perfect by any means. It still has issues of being extremely power hungry to play a simple video, sucking up all of your megahertz at every chance. But it’s improving, we’ll see how that all pans out. Never the less! You still need it, here’s an up to date guide on how to get it for your fresh new install of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS Desktop.
How to Install Flash on Ubuntu AMD64 via the Adobe PPA Repository
$ sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 454FEDB228E1455D687C9CBE35DA01C261E46227 gpg: requesting key 61E46227 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: key 61E46227: public key "Launchpad Default PPA" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
$ sudo apt-get update
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: xulrunner-1.9 konqueror-nsplugins msttcorefonts ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs The following NEW packages will be installed: flashplugin64-installer 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 7,922B of archives. After this operation, 164kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu/ lucid/main flashplugin64-installer 10.0.45.2-0ubuntu0~sevenmachines1 [7,922B] Fetched 7,922B in 0s (16.8kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin64-installer. (Reading database ... 123356 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking flashplugin64-installer (from .../flashplugin64-installer_10.0.45.2-0ubuntu0~sevenmachines1_amd64.deb) ... Setting up flashplugin64-installer (10.0.45.2-0ubuntu0~sevenmachines1) ... Downloading... Getting http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz --2010-04-30 07:51:42-- http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz Resolving download.macromedia.com... 69.192.195.191 Connecting to download.macromedia.com|69.192.195.191|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3731155 (3.6M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `./libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz' 0K .......... .......... 1% 449K 8s 350K .......... .......... 10% 1.86M 3s 700K .......... .......... 20% 3.44M 2s 1050K .......... .......... 30% 3.68M 1s 1450K .......... .......... 40% 4.20M 1s 1800K .......... .......... 50% 4.39M 1s 2150K .......... .......... 60% 4.15M 1s 2550K .......... .......... 70% 198M 0s 2900K .......... .......... 80% 1.57M 0s 3250K .......... .......... 90% 2.66M 0s 3600K .......... .......... 100% 4.06M=1.3s 2010-04-30 07:51:44 (2.67 MB/s) - `./libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz' saved [3731155/3731155] Download done. Flash Plugin installed.
- Uninstall any previous version’s you might have already installed
- Add the Adobe PPA Repository if you have not already.
- Update your repositories
- Within the list, you should see the following line when you run the previous step.
- Install the Flash Plugin
- Flash should be successfully installed at this point. Close any running web browsers and relaunch them and go check out youtube.
If you have any trouble still you can now redownload the plugin from scratch just by issuing the following command. $ sudo update-flashplugin This was part of the old method when using flashplugin-nonfree, doesn’t exist for “flashplugin64-installer” as far as I know.
The other added benefit to installing Flash with this method is that when you do a regular system update, the Adobe PPA is included in that automatic update. To see the latest developments on the Adobe Flash Linux plugin’s, go see http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/ And for further troubleshooting, there is some great information found on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash down near the bottom. At this point it’s not “fully” up to date with Lucid. But still worth checking out if you are still having issues.
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12 Comments
[...] Proper Install of Flash for x64 Ubuntu | 2010-04-30 08:23:04 | [...]
very good, thank you