Getting Flash player to work in Firefox on 64bit Ubuntu

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If this issue has been covered before, I apologise. I did a search but only found a few bits of info which didn't solve my problem.

I have just installed the newest version of Ubuntu onto my computer and cannot get Flash player to work with Firefox. From my research I am led to believe that it does not support 64bit browsers.

The two options I have tried so far are:
1- Install a thingymajig which makes Flash compatible with 64bit Firefox. This didn't work.

2 - Install an older version of Firefox (2.*) as it should be 32bit and therefore compatible. I have tried but I cannot get it to install.

Please excuse my n00bness as it has been a long time since I dabbled with Linux (Slackware and Smoothwall about 5 or 6 years ago) and my knowledge isn't quite up to scratch.

Is there a step-by-step guide out there in simple enough language for a newb like me to follow or if not could someone help me out?

Many thanks :)
 
Should work fine on 64-bit FF3 - that's what I'm using and it's OK for me.

Have you tried using the "flashplugin-nonfree" in the repository? You should be able to just search for that - although you may need to amend your list of repositories if you've not already done so, in order to search the non-open source stuff.

I don't think I did anything else apart from install it via Synaptic, and if I can manage it then anyone can.
 
The way that I do it is also probably the easiest. Install the
ubuntu-restricted-extras
metapackage and it'll set everything up for you. It uses a wrapper to use the 32-bit Flash plugin on a 64-bit browser, but you can't tell unless you check running processes while it's running. It should do all the setup for you. It did for me and I never had to think about it again.

So that's:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
 
Running FF3 on Ubuntu 64-bit v8.04 LTS Live CD.

Went to youtube, got the yellow banner at the top, installed Adobe Flash Player through that....works fine.
 
GarethDW said:
Should work fine on 64-bit FF3 - that's what I'm using and it's OK for me.

Have you tried using the "flashplugin-nonfree" in the repository? You should be able to just search for that - although you may need to amend your list of repositories if you've not already done so, in order to search the non-open source stuff.

I don't think I did anything else apart from install it via Synaptic, and if I can manage it then anyone can.
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I have found but I don't know how to install it. Do I just navigate to the folder in terminal and type "./filename.so"? Because when I do that I get "Segmentation error".



BillytheImpaler said:
The way that I do it is also probably the easiest. Install the
ubuntu-restricted-extras
metapackage and it'll set everything up for you. It uses a wrapper to use the 32-bit Flash plugin on a 64-bit browser, but you can't tell unless you check running processes while it's running. It should do all the setup for you. It did for me and I never had to think about it again.

So that's:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
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Thanks Billy, I have installed the extras now but when I go to install Flash player from the .tar.gz download, I still get the error "The installer does not support x64 architecture".



Conrad11 said:
Running FF3 on Ubuntu 64-bit v8.04 LTS Live CD.

Went to youtube, got the yellow banner at the top, installed Adobe Flash Player through that....works fine.
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When I go to Youtube, I don't get the yellow banner at the top of Firefox. Instead, where the video applet should be there's a message saying "You either have Javascript disabled or are running an older version of Adobe Flash."


I'm probably missing something really obvious here.
Thanks for your help guys :)
 
Scuzi said:
Thanks Billy, I have installed the extras now but when I go to install Flash player from the .tar.gz download, I still get the error "The installer does not support x64 architecture".
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Everything about Ubuntu is easier if you just use the packages in the repos and not screw around downloading installers and such. :)

You'll come around! :p
 
That's a rare case though, where the repo is enough out of date that it matters and you need the newer version. Even then it's easier to grab a .deb from the maintainer (or a .rpm for use with alien).

And I never said it was better or worst, I just said it was easier. :)
 
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