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
Thanks i was having a lot of frezes on flash9 when using fullscreen (:
status:Error:Wrong architecture ‘i386’
Help me please!!thanks
Jpsc: you’re on 64bit ubuntu, so follow the “For 64 bit Users” instructions.
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
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!
The 64 bit script worked like a charm. Thank you. Have a brilliant New Year!
Works good in Kbuntu 8.04.1 AMD64. Thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot! Script worked great for my Kubuntu 8.04 64bit
Worked perfect! Thanks!!!!
Hi… I installed the adobe-flash plugin from the ubuntu repositories but I kept on having problems with flash. I uninstalled it and did my installation using the package on the adobe site but I’m still experiencing problems with flash.
When I try for a new installation this is what I get on the terminal:
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
adobe-flashplugin is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
Yet when I go to sites such as http://www.coca-cola.com/index.jsp, I get a notification that says:
“To view this site, you’ll need to upgrade to the latest version of Flash.”
My about plugins page also has no sign that the adobe flash-plugin is installed. Im perplexed. Help anyone… Please.
Warning to people who might consider using this script: This doesn’t install the 64 bit Flash 10 plugin, it installs the 32 bit version with a 64 bit wrapper. This is already done for you in Intrepid and later versions of Ubuntu when you sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
please when i go to installe adobe flash player i found an error why this proplem can you help me to solve this proplem , thanks
i’m having trouble…
I’m on Ubuntu 8.04 and am following method one (method 2 isn’t working at all…)
I’m receiving this error after downloading the .deb package to my desktop
“Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libpango1.0-0”
I attempted to install this and I received a message saying that I had an later version installed…ideas?
Thanks for that script, I’ve been trying to get flash working for a few days now but I’m new to linux so anything more complicated than “type sudo apt-get” or “run this script” wasn’t very helpful.
Outstanding. The 64-bit shell script worked like a charm. Thanks Alejandro! You rock!
Thanks very much. x64 Script worked for 9.04 AMD also.
i’m trying to install the 64 bit version but something isn’t working (i am pretty new to this business). when i try to view flash i get the message about not having the latest version of flash player. when i ran the script terminal says:
“HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
11:04:55 ERROR 404: Not Found.
dpkg: error processing getlibs-all.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
getlibs-all.deb”
and
“sudo: getlibs: command not found”
and
“*** 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”
On ubuntu 8.04 make sure you are up to date on libs!
System > Administration > Software sources > Updates tab
Tick “Importan security updates (hardy-security)” and “Recommended Updates (hardy-updates)” on! > close
“System > Administration > Update manager” and Install all updates
THANK YOU SO DAMN MUCH.
I’m trying to install using terminal but i keep getting;
dpkg: error processing install_flash_player_10_linux.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
install_flash_player_10_linux.deb
after following the steps before and saving the .deb file to my desktop… What am I doing wrong? :s Hope someone can help…
Thanks.
I have installed the Flash Player plug-in for Firefox on Ubuntu 8.04 and even after I installed, it still says “Get Adobe Flash Player” when I go too certain websites, example: Mycokerewards.com/Myspace.com and so on….
What do I do???
Hello, I have a problem with Flash because the computer does not remove it entirely(I have Ubuntu 9.04). If I try to remove it, it won’t vanish from the application list. I want to remove it because it doesn’t work with the Facebook Playfish games, but works with anyother flash game…any help!?!?!?!? Thank you!!!!
Hello. I am trying to use the 64 script, but it seems like ‘getlibs-all.deb’ that the script tries to download is no longer available. Where can I find it now? Thank you much.
Hi I had problem downloading the getlibs-all.deb file too. It seems that Cappy’s changed the file host.
Solution:
Replace the following line in Alejandro’s script:
wget http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb
with:
wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
And Bob’s your uncle.
Thanks! I tried many things but the 64 bits actually worked! Thanks again
Tried 64bit script:
Downloading and instaling Getlibs for required libraries
–11:25:17– http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb
=> `getlibs-all.deb’
Resolving http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com... 174.132.151.2
Connecting to http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com|174.132.151.2|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
11:25:17 ERROR 404: Not Found.
dpkg: error processing getlibs-all.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
—————–
I checked the URL and there’s only an Apache “test page” there, so I commented the wget line of the script (added # to the beginning of line 12) and downloaded getlibs-all.deb from another location (just googled it) and saved it to home directory.
Additionally, “tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz” extracted libflashplayer.so to my home directory and not a subdirectory named install_flash_player_10_linux, which is where the script tries to copy the file from, so I had to change line 35 to
“sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/”
and line 36 to
“rm libflashplayer.so”.
After that it worked. I hope anyone who has the same problems reads this.
Works for me! Thanks a lot
For anyone who tried the script and it didn’t work: I think the easiest way to install Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu is to go to the Adobe Labs website and download the 64 bit TAR.GZ file, double-click it to extract the libflashplayer.so file, and copy that file into your “plugins” folder in your browser folder.
For my installation of Firefox, there was no existing “plugins” folder, so I had to create a folder named “plugins” in the .mozilla folder, and just paste the .so file into the “plugins” folder. Very easy.
Remember, for newbies, you have to go to the View menu on your folder window and check the Show Hidden Files option to be able to see the .mozilla (or other browser) folder. My user name is “jon”, so the complete path to paste the .so file into was:
//home/jon/.mozilla/plugins/
//home/jon/.mozila/plugins
Hi –
How to uninstall the 64-bit version now? Anyone?
I installed this on Jaunty x64 via the above 32-bit workaround, but now that there’s an alpha Flash for linux x64, I’d like to uninstall. Can’t find the package!
Thank you so much