Getting Flash player to work in Firefox on 64bit Ubuntu

[Scuzi]

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

 

[Scuzi]

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.

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".

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

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".

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.

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]

Update - After a restart it magically seems to be working now

Thanks!!