Installing Flash Player on 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 (AMD64)
It was a royal PITA to get Adobe Flash Player 10 installed on my Ubuntu 64-bit workstation, so I figured I’d make a quick note and hopefully spare others the pain. This is an Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 install (a.k.a. 64-bit Intrepid).
You’ve probably gotten the following error while trying to install Flash thru either System | Administration | Synaptic Package Manager, or command line sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree:
Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
Go to Adobe Labs’ Flash Player 10 page, click Download & Install on right, then click “Download 64-bit Plugin for Linux” link. As of today, this will get you libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz. Unpacking it yields a single file libflashplayer.so, needed in two places:
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Restart FireFox and you should be good.
