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You can check the release notes from here
Note:- This is still in beta version and it might completely break your system
First you need to remove the existing flash player using the following command
sudo apt-get
--purge remove flashplugin-installer
Download adobe flash player 10.1 from here
or use the following command
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_1_p1_linux_111709.tar.gz
Now you need to create a plugin folder in the .mozilla configuration folder.
mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins
Unpack the file flashplayer10_1_p1_linux_111709.tar.gz using the following command
tar -zxvf flashplayer10_1_p1_linux_111709.tar.gz
cd ~/install_flash_player_10_linux
Install the flash player 10.1 beta plugin
mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins
Remove flash player 10.1 beta
If you want to remove Flash Player 10.1 Beta and reinstall Ubuntu’s repository version of flash
First Delete the plugins folder in the .mozilla folder and use the following command to install
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Will this work with 64bit systems? Or are we still stuck with the flash 10.0.32 alpha from adobe labs?
@no it doesn’t work on 64-bit systems
This is a somewhat more extensive way to install than when I tried the other day when it first appeared as available to try. That time I installed it following the given instructions but found that my browser (Shiretoko) was crashing whilst watching flash videos on BBC: Iplayer and CH4’s: 4OD. The controls in window were strangely distorted, button fonts too small to recognise except through instinct of previous builds, video was hard to start frequently with only audio playing.
@Aaron, you can get a 64bit Linux “pre-release” version of flash here:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html
Install is similar, it will contain a .so that you would put in ~/.mozilla/plugins after removing the Ubuntu installed version.
Note this is a 10.0 pre-release and NOT a 10.1 version.
It has worked well for me.
is it necessary to upgade the flash player plugin?
if your flash player is working fine theres no need to mess it up.
dont fix if its not broken…
It might actually be useful for ubuntu users IF it had video hardware acceleration for linux.
Screw flash. Come on HTML5.