How to install Adobe Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu 8.04 (32 bit and 64 bit Hardy heron)
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Preparing your system
Remove your existing Flash plugin, if you have one installed. This command will remove Flash 9 if you installed it from Ubuntu’s repository
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
For 32 bit Users
Install adobe Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu 8.04
Method 1
First you need to download the .deb package from here
Click the download link to begin installation. If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to save the installer to your desktop.
Save the .deb package to your desktop, and wait for it to download completely.
Double-click on the .deb package and follow the instructions to complete installation.
or
Use the following command from your terminal
sudo dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
This will complete the installation.
Method 2
Using apturl
First you need to make sure you have installed apturl using the following command
sudo apt-get install apturl
Now you need to go to the download page menctioned above click on linux section from dropdown box select APT for Ubuntu 8.04+ Click the download link and follow the instructions to complete installation.
To get the most up-to-date Flash Player in the future, issue the following commands from the Terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
Verify your plugin Installation
To verify the plugin is installed in Mozilla, launch Mozilla and choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser menu.
or
In your broweser enter the following command and check
about:plugins
For 64 bit Users
Thanks to Alejandro for this nice script.First you need to Download shell script from here
Using the following command
wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh
Now you need to give execute permissions using the following command
sudo chmod +x flash10_en.sh
Run the script now
sudo sh ./flash10_en.sh
October 15th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I receive a ‘Sorry, this page is not available’ error message when trying to download the .deb package.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
@jAKE
I am able to download without any problem and you can try to use method 2 described in the article.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
And yet AGAIN Adobe is ignoring the 64 bit folks, glad to see we are still clinging to dead technology…
Looks like I’ll have to wait for an install method for 64-bit.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
@malaeum
Yes that is really disappointment for 64-bit folks
October 15th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Argh, stupid Adobe, they seem to have f****d up some forwarding.
Get the .deb here: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
October 15th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Nice! It works flawlessly here! thanks for the tutorial!
October 15th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Any about x86_64 please?
October 15th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Big thanks for this. I had tried installing Intrepid’s package for the Flash plug-in with varied results. This appears to be working properly - no more 100% CPU usage just from watching a Flash video. Woot woot!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Yeah I’d like 64bit instructions too. But, I’m very glad they’ve made a .deb now.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Flash => Flash cookies => web sites doing things with my browser I don’t like. I can skip watching people twirling squirrels and dancing
babies.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:30 am
For 64 bit users see http://queleimporta.com/the-easiest-way-to-install-flash-10-on-ubuntu-64-bits/en/
October 16th, 2008 at 3:09 am
can use it at 64bit ubuntu ??
October 16th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Neither method works for me. Method one acts like it installs but nothing in about:plugins. Apturl gives the same error mentioned about about the package not being available. All three of my machines are running:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3
October 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I used 2nd method first. And I tried both methods, issuing the remove … plug-in both times, first thing. On the 1st attempt GDebi ran the package and issued no problems. ON checking about:plugins, I have Flash/Shockwave 9.something.
Ran the remove command again, d/l’d the package to my Desktop and issued the command string. Checked about:plugins to see I have 9.0/something.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Unfortunately, on Kubuntu 8.04 these methods seems not working. I’ve tried to remove (through apt) flashplugin-nonfree and install with dpkg a .deb with flash 10 - but all of my browsers (Firefox, Opera, Konqueror) have ignored it. I tried to manually copy a .so file into all possible plugin directories - still doesn’t work. Anyone has any idea how to resolve this?
October 16th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I’m having the same problems as stated above. Ubunti 8.04.
Neither method works for me. Method one acts like it installs but nothing in about:plugins. Apturl gives the same error mentioned about about the package not being available.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I got it to work, finally. Instead of using gdebi I saved the package to the desktop and used dpkg (a couple times), and when I opened firefox back up it shows it at the top of about:plugins.
Make sure Firefox is closed when you run it, and use sudo dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
Flash sites that didn’t work before unless firefox was restarted are working everytime now! YAY!
October 17th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Tnx a lot, I’m user of 64 bit technologie, your tutorial works for me without any problem.
Sorry my english
October 18th, 2008 at 12:46 am
The shell script worked for me (64-bit, 8.04, Q6600) - thanks.
YouTube playing again properly and Flash generally looking more robust than with Flash 9. Still a hideous CPU hog. One or two Flash apps flickering badly - not sure what’s causing that.
October 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Hello mates,
I’m getting this error when the script is in the middle of the procedure.
–10:30:50– http://ppa.launchpad.net/daou/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.2~b2-0ubuntu1~fta1~hardy_i386.deb
=> `libnspr4-0d_4.7.2~b2-0ubuntu1~fta1~hardy_i386.deb’
Resolving ppa.launchpad.net… 91.189.90.217
Connecting to ppa.launchpad.net|91.189.90.217|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
10:30:50 ERROR 404: Not Found.
It seems that the package is not longer available.
I’m running on ubuntu 64 bits and I’m using the 2nd method.
Any help?
October 18th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
@ X-plo
Disalble temporarily all your non-standard repositories. (ie. disable all Launchpad repositories)
Leave checked only your ubuntu repositories.
Then try again.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
64 bit script worked like a charm on my ubuntu 64! Thanks a LOT!
One note only:
The shell script does not require execution permissions if you use “sh” command to run it.
So go for either of this two variants (I prefer number 2 though):
1)
chmod +x flash10_en.sh
sudo ./flash10_en.sh
or
2) sudo sh ./flash10_en.sh
October 21st, 2008 at 5:29 am
Alejandro I tried and nothing happened, same error :S Can anyone help me?
nobody# wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/daou/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.2~b2-0ubuntu1~fta1~hardy_i386.deb
–23:56:40– http://ppa.launchpad.net/daou/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.2~b2-0ubuntu1~fta1~hardy_i386.deb
=> `libnspr4-0d_4.7.2~b2-0ubuntu1~fta1~hardy_i386.deb’
Resolving ppa.launchpad.net… 91.189.90.217
Connecting to ppa.launchpad.net|91.189.90.217|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
23:56:42 ERROR 404: Not Found.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
@ X-plo
The problem remains your repositories.
The error you are getting mentions the “http://ppa.launchpad.net/daou/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.2~b2-0ubuntu1~fta1~hardy_i386.deb” repository, and that is a 3rd party repository that does not contain the necesary pakages.
You need to disable that repository and enable the main ones.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Alejandro.
Finally I already did that, I comment out all ppa.launchpad.net repositories and I left the originals repositories, after that I updated my system, but I am getting another output:
The following i386 packages will be installed: libnss3-1d
Continue [Y/n]?
libnss3-1d was not found in your repositories
Make sure you have all repositories enabled and updated
No packages to install
The following i386 packages will be installed: libnspr4-0d
Continue [Y/n]?
libnspr4-0d was not found in your repositories
Make sure you have all repositories enabled and updated
No packages to install
at the end the result was this:
install_flash_player_10_linux/
install_flash_player_10_linux/flashplayer-installer
install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
I did another manual procedure to get the missing libs but it was the same. :S Some idea?
October 25th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I was having trouble until I uninstalled gnashplayer (must’ve installed it sometime during set-up).
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:29 am
Many many thanks,
now flash works properly
November 19th, 2008 at 11:17 am
You no longer need nspluginwrapper. Adobe has released flashplayer 10 64-bit alpha. It is running fine on my system.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Thank you finally something that actually works .
November 28th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Thanks ! : )
December 7th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Thanks i was having a lot of frezes on flash9 when using fullscreen (:
December 19th, 2008 at 7:00 am
status:Error:Wrong architecture ‘i386′
Help me please!!thanks
December 19th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Jpsc: you’re on 64bit ubuntu, so follow the “For 64 bit Users” instructions.
December 31st, 2008 at 1:37 am
The 64 bit download worked great, I felt so thankful after failed on trying others so many time.
Thanks for providing such a great help!
Jieff
December 31st, 2008 at 1:39 am
The download and install for Flash Player 10 64 bit worked like a charm. Thanks for bringing a couple of days of futility to an end!
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 am
The 64 bit script worked like a charm. Thank you. Have a brilliant New Year!