I recently found a quick and successfull way of installing Flash Player 10 RC on Ubuntu 8.04 running a 64 bit processor.
First, download this deb:
http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb
And install it via:
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
Then create a script somewhere, for instance script.sh.
gedit script.sh
Fill it with the following code:
#!/bin/bash
# Script created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com
# Super minor updates by jason.melton[at]gmail[dot]com
# Released under GPL
echo “Stopping any Firefox that might be running”
sudo killall -9 firefox
echo “Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:”
sudo apt-get remove -y –purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
echo “Installing ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper”
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper
echo “Getting libs”
sudo getlibs -p libcurl3
sudo getlibs -p libnss3-1d
sudo getlibs -p libnspr4-0d
echo “Installing Flash Player 10″
cd ~
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
tar zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
sudo cp install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo chmod +rx /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
rm -rf ~/install_flash_player_10_linux/
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
echo “Linking the libraries so Firefox can find it.”
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
echo “Done ”
Save the file and make it executable via chmod +x script.sh
Then run the script.
That should do it.
Run about:config in the address bar of Firefox which should point out now, that flash is installed and running:
Display of installed flash 10 in Firefox 3
The script was written and taken from:
http://meandubuntu.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/flash-10-rc-on-ubuntu-amd64/
Credits go to Romeo-Adrian Cioaba
