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64 Bit Flash Player

Wolfman

Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:14:05 am

In case you are having trouble with the flash player on a 64 bit PC, you can correct that by doing the following in a terminal:

Remove current installed version:

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper*flash*so
rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*so

Add sevenmachines' PPA (make sure all package managers are closed first):

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

At this stage, you should restart Firefox and verify that the plugin is installed by selecting Tools/Add-ons in the menu.

Uninstall instructions:

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin64-installer

Regards Wolfman :D

rscott4581

Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:02:56 pm

Flash was working very flaky before I done this, now it works perfect so far..
Thanks Wolfman..

Wolfman

Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:11:14 pm

Glad it worked for you. I had a problem myself and found the "cure" on the Ubuntu site.

Regards Wolfman ;)