Comments on: How to install Adobe Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu 8.04 (32 bit and 64 bit Hardy heron)

By: Muniraj

Muniraj — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:08:26 +0000

Thanks u so much…..
nw my videos are workng…..

love linux…..

By: pramod

pramod — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:33:17 +0000

Thanks,
its working.

By: kslawdog

kslawdog — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:21:15 +0000

im using ubuntu 9.10 64 bit and I just went to synaptic package manager, installed restrictedubuntu (it also has other distros) restart computer and voilà!

By: Hersiguure

Hersiguure — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:12:53 +0000

haha thanks for the help….

By: Mtz

Mtz — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:35:52 +0000

Yes. After weeks of trying and searching forums and testing various “fool-proof” methods that don’t work, I gave up and upgraded to Ubuntu 10. This solved the problem, as the flash 10 plugin comes with it (or it recognised the flash 10 libraries I had tried to install, frankly i don’t know, but it works now).

So, unsless you have some Ubuntu 8.04 specific things going on that you’d lose by upgrading to Ubuntu 10, I strongly recommend this option. It’s very stable and I’m happy with it. Hope you’ll be too.

Have a nice day!

By: T.J.

T.J. — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:22:12 +0000

I keep getting error stating that versions of my software are newer than the ones the program uses to operate.Configuration not completed it says.

Any ideas?

By: Problem..

Problem.. — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:50:11 +0000

Hi, i’ve tried your method for 32-bit but it’s not working. No “flash” plugin is listed on the about:plugins page after following your exact steps. Firefox was restarted. What now?

By: McDiesel

McDiesel — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:15:13 +0000

Good things don’t always last….

From line 12 of the script…

wget http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb

HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
22:13:58 ERROR 404: Not Found.

By: dagerd

dagerd — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:42:58 +0000

Thx a lot, buddy! Great explanation!

By: six616

six616 — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:32:00 +0000

install adobe flash player 10 on 8.04 64 bit
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It works for my case.
Firefox 3.0.15
Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes_64bit.html#install

By: Hoodat

Hoodat — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:35:14 +0000

Ooooops, I guess 7 times is good luck. 3 times I downloaded the deb package and tried to install that directly. Then, I followed what was listed in the instructions above for the 4th time and it finally stuck. I am not really sure what I did differently but suddenly I am able to view Flash content.
Thanks for making information like this available. It obviously helped me a lot.
Who knows. Maybe someday I will figure all this out.

By: Hoodat

Hoodat — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:14:00 +0000

New to Linux here. Don’t understand a lot of the instructions I find out there. Anywhere for that matter.
I’m running a (32 bit) HP system with Ubuntu(8.04) and Firefox (3.0.16). I just can’t get Adobe Flash Player (10.0.42.34) installed. I keep getting a message saying that it is already installed BUT I cannot view Flash content.
Why is this so difficult for me? Wait… don’t answer that. I probably wouldn’t like the answer, ha, ha.
Newbie Blues…… sigh!

By: dimaz

dimaz — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:19:01 +0000

how to uninstall flashplugin 10 & install flashplugin 9?

By: iza

iza — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:46:17 +0000

Solved!! thanks!! i don t know what saved me cause i tried everything but for sure it s something you explained on this page, i m trying to get flash since lots of weeks, thank you

By: E.M.Fields

E.M.Fields — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:28:31 +0000

CORRECTION:

Correction to above instructions:
I didn’t realize which article I was responding to. This article’s method is actually installing the 32-bit version with a workaround for 64-bit users, if I remember correctly.
(Admin?)

You do not need to do all this anymore to install the flash plugin for 64-bit systems. Adobe has released a 64-bit binary of Flash Player 10.0.
You can download it at “http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/”.

Unzip the file and proceed same way as my previous instructions. It goes in /lib/firefox-3.whatever-version/plugins/

peace,
e.m.fields
chapel hill nc

By: E.M.Fields

E.M.Fields — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:08:15 +0000

Machado:
“the 64 bits edition didn’t work for me i dunno why all the install progress works fine but when i open any site which needs flash plugin it asks me to download it”

I’m on 64-bit Jaunty, and I had the same problem. It took me FOREVER to figure this one out:

You need to make sure the plugin is in the proper location, which is somewhat mysterious. You’re getting that message because it’s searching where it *should* be and getting a link that leads to nothing. There are several different “firefox-related” plugin directories. I had to try several different locations before I found the one that worked:
/usr/lib/firefox-3.whatever/plugins/

So, this script you just ran basically put a plugin file named libflashplayer.so somewhere, probably under /home/your-username/.mozilla/plugins/

This file needs to be moved from here to the location I just stated above.

Furthermore, you may need to go through every last little “mozilla” or “firefox” related directory in your system and nuke any links that might be pointing to an incorrect location:

1. at terminal, type: sudo updatedb
2. locate *libflashplayer*
to locate all the copies EXCEPT THE PROPER ONE YOU JUST INSTALLED
3. delete em all. (“sudo rm /path/to/each-file-you-just-found/libflashplayer.so”)

Admin, maybe you’ll make your own mention of this if it’s useful to people?

e.m.fields
chapel hill nc

By: Machado

Machado — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:29:10 +0000

the 64 bits edition didn’t work for me i dunno why all the install progress works fine but when i open any site which needs flash plugin it asks me to download it

By: admin

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:46:37 +0000

@Make sure you are running this command in correct location

By: Zenchrono

Zenchrono — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:30:57 +0000

whenever i type the command for 64-bit users
sudo chmod +x flash10_en.sh
this comes up
chmod: cannot access `flash10_en.sh’: No such file or directory
any help?

By: Spips

Spips — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:47:25 +0000

SOLVED! Thanks a lot! I had a 64bit version and the last one was the only solution that worked for me.