Comments on: HOWTO: Install Flash 9 on Ubuntu 64-bit

By: peter

peter — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:42:54 +0000

Many thanks!!!!

By: Samuelsner

Samuelsner — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:01:49 +0000

Flawless, nice work and thanks! i’ve tried NUMEROUS fixes and this is the first to work.

Mozilla creates a plugins folder - For those of you who do not create your own, here is code you’ll need:

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

enjoy!

By: Darb

Darb — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:27:41 +0000

Thanks a bunch! - I used the Gutsy x86_64 default system firefox plugin location

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so and restarted firefox

By: Saulo Silva

Saulo Silva — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:16:27 +0000

Wow, it just works!
Did on a Ubuntu Gutsy 64bit, worked like a charm!

By: Sebby

Sebby — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:49:36 +0000

The last step gives me: libflashplayer.so is not a valid NPAPI plugin

By: Devosion

Devosion — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:42:34 +0000

Made my life a whole lot easier. Thanks much!

By: BugButcher

BugButcher — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:03:02 +0000

Nicely done! Add a ’sudo’ prior to the ‘cp’ command and away you go…

Thanks.

By: a-j

a-j — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:21:18 +0000

Sebby, that’s because there is a typo in the instructions…

step (2) should be

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins
cp install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

Hope that helps

By: LindenRathen

LindenRathen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:18:08 +0000

Many thanks

works excellently - many thanks and the firefox fix works fine as well

thanks again!

By: Bosstone

Bosstone — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:22:04 +0000

Many thanks! As a Linux newbie I found this very helpful.

By: Shoe

Shoe — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:42:38 +0000

Thank you! And thanks for the correction, a-j.

By: D-Sticks

D-Sticks — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:57:17 +0000

Worked for me on Gutsy 64! I put “libflashplayer.so” in /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins/ with the rest of my plugins to keep it clean. Copy & paste the 2 sets of commands below into the terminal to do all the work for you. It will download the file, move it to the default firefox plugins directory then clean itself up. Enter your password when prompted.

——————————1st COPY & PASTE BELOW—————————-

cd ~/
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
tar -xvzf ./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins/

——————-2nd COPY & PASTE TO INSTALL/CLEAN UP——————-

sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -r install_flash_player_9_linux
sudo rm install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

By: tg

tg — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:11:09 +0000

worked for me! many thanks!!

By: Dave DooLittle

Dave DooLittle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:01:49 +0000

Thanks, finally flash works on 64 bit. I had to do:
nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
since I chose to install to /usr/lib64.

By: Sakkle

Sakkle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:01:19 +0000

At last! A working fix… Great work
Didn’t work the first time I tried but when I took into account the “typo” mentioned in a-j’s post, it worked like a charm.

So just to mention that again for anyone having this problem:
If, after runnning the last command, you get the following error: libflashplayer.so is not a valid NPAPI plugin

The solution is to replace step 2 above with this (tnx a-j):
mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins
cp install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

By: Aljosa

Aljosa — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:24:32 +0000

So cool! Thanks for the how-to. 2 minutes to make it work

By: Niklas

Niklas — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:16:38 +0000

Excellent!! Underbart!
Works great with swiftfox also!

By: Howard Graham

Howard Graham — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:47:50 +0000

What am I doing wrong I need a ‘multiverse’ and I don’t have a nspluginwrapper

hjg@hjg-desktop:/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins$ ls
libflashplayer.so libtotem-mully-plugin.so
libtotem-basic-plugin.so libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt
libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
libtotem-gmp-plugin.so libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt
libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt libunixprintplugin.so
hjg@hjg-desktop:/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins$ sudo aptitude install nspluginwrapper
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Initializing package states… Done
Writing extended state information… Done
Building tag database… Done
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “nspluginwrapper”
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states… Done
Building tag database… Done
hjg@hjg-desktop:/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins$ nspluginwrapper -i ~/.firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
The program ‘nspluginwrapper’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper
You will have to enable component called ‘multiverse’
bash: nspluginwrapper: command not found
hjg@hjg-desktop:/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins$ sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package nspluginwrapper

Howard

By: daryl

daryl — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:31:49 +0000

Howard

In a shell run:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Uncomment (remove the #) from the lines containing multiverse. Save the file and then run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper

cheers
Daryl

By: Jaap

Jaap — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:04:57 +0000

Hi Daryl,

won’t work for me: I can play the movies on YouTube, but it won’t play all Flash movies. For instance, the Flash at http://www.nl.bol.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store won’t work.

Does it work for you? Do you see anything?

By: daryl

daryl — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:51:17 +0000

Hi Jaap - yeah that site works ok for me, can see some special offers etc.

Check the ubuntu updates as well - youtube stopped working for me a couple of days ago for some reason but after an ubuntu update all was well.

By: ToMaZi

ToMaZi — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:42:08 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for your howto.
I had tried a lot with no result, but yours works !!!

By: aayore

aayore — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:31:39 +0000

Thank you!!! I’ve been beating my Ubuntu install with a stick for a long time trying to get Flash to work. The packaged flashplugin-nonfree install available through Synaptic has been smacking against our corporate proxy server. I tried all sorts of different stuff, but it was the “nspluginwrapper -i” that I was missing. Now I can listen to Pandora!

By: bearswatchin

bearswatchin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:46:15 +0000

FYI, I was unable to get this howto to work on Ubuntu 8.04 beta. May be my noobie status but . . . .

By: Marcel

Marcel — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:58:03 +0000

Here’s what worked for me - it’s a method described for Debian and seems even simpler with 4 easy steps:

note: commands are in quotation marks for illustration purposes only

1] download the adobe flashplayer tar.gz file to the desktop and then close your browser window(s)
2] untar it like so: “tar -zxvf name-of-file.tar.gz” // you don’t have to sudo here
3] cd to the flashplayer-installer file and do “sudo ./flashplayer-installer”
4] agree when asked and when asked for the path, follow the example and change the “mozilla” part to what’s relevant to your browser, ie firefox or iceweasel

the next step is not necessary, but I like a clean desktop, so this is what I did: cd to Desktop, and issue: “sudo rm -r install*”

open your browser, and try with for example youtube

By: Romeo Olida

Romeo Olida — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:36:08 +0000

Thank you !! Very straightforward procedure, simple to follow. Just take note of a-j’s smart finding about the typo. I can now watch CNN’s videos after following the procedure and restarting my desktop. Cheers !!

By: Deepak

Deepak — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:43:09 +0000

Thanks a lot.
Great Job……….it worked smoooooothly………….

By: Gizzard

Gizzard — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:50:13 +0000

Thank you kindly.
I won’t go back to W@#$dows after all.
A simple procedure which WORKS - why doesn’t Ub@#tu publish this??!!

By: kangarooman

kangarooman — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:56 +0000

Hey Thanks mate ….. this works !

I had it installed in my /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins directory.

Although for me, simply re-starting my firefox (Firefox 3 Beta 5 - comes with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) did not help. I had to log out and log back in and only then I could play programmes like BBC iPlayers. Not sure why though.

But thanks anyway.

kangarooman.

By: andy

andy — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:06:16 +0000

Finally!!!
I spend a whole afternoon looking for solution.Only this One solved my problem.
Absolutely Brilliant!

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:10:13 +0000

Excellent! Worked for me too!

By: dharjee

dharjee — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:37:25 +0000

perfect, works on Ubuntu 8.04 also!

Thanx

By: emailandthings

emailandthings — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:46:53 +0000

Thanks man it worked on 8.04…

ps: donated a click..

By: Herman

Herman — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:15:38 +0000

Thank you so much! Like many of the others, I have tried numerous solutions and this one was the first to work and it was easy! Kudos

By: jaret100

jaret100 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:05:54 +0000

Worked it out! thanks! a few notes that i wanted to mention during my fix..

(in regard to the last step)

I have Hardy Heron and then i also installed firefox 3.0.3.
With ff3 upgrade, there are 3 other folders that are associated with a version of firefox but one just links to another, so its really only two.

I used the nspluginwrapper for each of the the folders, so im not sure which one made it work.

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.3/plugins/libflashplayer.so

By: ulli

ulli — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:55:04 +0000

Thanks a lot.
I used the Gutsy x86_64 default system firefox plugin location (/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins/) and the installation worked great.

By: Anthony Hildoer

Anthony Hildoer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:08:33 +0000

I automated the process of installing flash 32bit and 64bit in Ubuntu Desktop. It even works with pulseaudio.

Automated Flash Install:
http://www.hildoersystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76:automated-install-of-flash-10-for-ubuntu-desktop-32bit-and-64bit&catid=39:multimedia&Itemid=59