How to install adobe flash player 10.1 final in Ubuntu 10.04/9.10/9.04

November 19, 2009 · General ·

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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

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10 Comments to “How to install adobe flash player 10.1 final in Ubuntu 10.04/9.10/9.04”

  1. Aaron says:
    November 19, 2009 at 3:18 am

    Will this work with 64bit systems? Or are we still stuck with the flash 10.0.32 alpha from adobe labs?

  2. admin says:
    November 19, 2009 at 6:50 am

    @no it doesn’t work on 64-bit systems

  3. MrD says:
    November 19, 2009 at 10:51 am

    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.

  4. jab says:
    November 19, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    @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.

  5. iceman says:
    November 19, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    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…

  6. WiseGuy1020 says:
    November 20, 2009 at 3:48 pm

    It might actually be useful for ubuntu users IF it had video hardware acceleration for linux.

    Screw flash. Come on HTML5.

  7. Natrinicle says:
    June 1, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    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!

  8. Fal says:
    June 18, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    Hey it works 🙂

  9. Linhooks says:
    August 18, 2010 at 9:50 pm

    I am using Linux Mint 9. Typed in sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin in the terminal as suggested above. All working now, thanks

  10. Oscar says:
    May 26, 2011 at 6:43 am

    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

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