How to install adobe flash player 10.1 final in Ubuntu 10.04/9.10/9.04
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You can check the release notes from here
If you want to install adobe flash player 10.1 in Ubuntu follow these steps
edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
For ubuntu 10.04 users add the following line
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
For ubuntu 9.10 users add the following line
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu karmic partner
For ubuntu 9.04 users add the following line
http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
Install adobe flash player 10.1
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
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.
I found that I could not watch Youtube without stuttering on my netbook with v10 of Flash. I downloaded v10.1 RC6 from Adobe.com and wanted to install the plugin into Chromium. I found that you don’t have to uninstall the old version of Flash first, but you can simply install the libflashplayer.so, after untaring the archive, into the /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin folder and it should work for both chromium and firefox. Now I can watch Youtube without any stuttering!
Hey it works 🙂
I am using Linux Mint 9. Typed in sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin in the terminal as suggested above. All working now, thanks
The urls (i.e. http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu karmic partner), should be preceded by the word “deb”
that’s the only way it would work when I modified my file on 9.10
So it should read:
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu karmic partner