Adobe has released the much requested flash plugin that runs natively in 64 bit Linux machines.
This means that if you are having a 64 bit processor and a 64 bit Linux distribution, then you don’t have to go the roundabout way of installing a 32 bit flash player with nspluginwrapper anymore, to get things working.
Though the title says Ubuntu, the following steps are applicable for all Linux distributions:
- First, remove any flash plugins that you have installed. This includes any 32 bit adobe flash plugin or other open source plugins like Gnash.
- Close Firefox and run the following command from a terminal:
- Open firefox. Type about:plugins into the address bar and see the details of the plugin.
Note that the plugin is currently in alpha stage and might be a bit buggy. The adobe flash player 10 FAQ page says that the plugin has been tested on Ubuntu 8 and OpenSUSE 11 with Firefox 3 browser.
Can anyone here post their 64 bit flash plugin experience in other distributions like Fedora, Slackware etc?
I'm using Shockwave Flash 10.0 d21 and it works fine for me on centOS-5 / FF-3.0.5
Works fine for me with Fedora 10 running Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 on kernel 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.x86_64
After installing for Firefox it also works with Konqueror as it picks up firefox plugins (just had to rescan the plugins in Konqueror).
Thanks for the link to the native 64-bit version.
Just installed ubuntu 8.1 UE 64 bit and following your wget worked for me. Copy and pasted to terminal window: "start" >accesories>terminal. Had to paste with browser open, closed browser, back to terminal and entered.
Works fine, thks for the howto! New to Linux, old hand.
Works on Firefox 3.5 beta 4 under Fedora 11. Although, I downloaded and copied it manually, before finding this page.
It's working for me in Fedora 11 under FF 3.5beta4, although I installed manually before finding this page.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090427 Fedora/3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11 Firefox/3.5b4
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