Flash Player 9 on Ubuntu 6.06 (64bit)

[metallithrax]

I am trying to install Flash Player 9 on Ubuntu 6.06 (64bit) and it will not work. I have tried to follow these instructions, but it always fails at this "sudo dpkg -i nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.2-1.x86_64.deb" it always says file not found, even though it is there on the desktop.

Can anyone help?

[Barney T. Administrators]

Why not try it from the Adobe site:

1. Go to adobe.com

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/do...=ShockwaveFlash

2. Click the 'get Adobe Flash player' button

3. Download the compressed tar file

4. Extract the tar file and run the install script

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1. Click the "Download .tar.gz" link. A dialog box will appear asking you where to save the file.

2. Save the .tar.gz file to your desktop and wait for the file to download completely.

3. Unpackage the file. A directory called install_flash_player_9_linux will be created.

4. In terminal, navigate to this directory and type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer. Click Enter. The installer will instruct you to shut down your browser(s).

5. Once the installation is complete, the plug-in will be installed in your Mozilla browser. To verify, launch Mozilla and choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser menu.

5. Done

Barney

[metallithrax]

  barneyt said:

Why not try it from the Adobe site:

1. Go to adobe.com

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/do...=ShockwaveFlash

2. Click the 'get Adobe Flash player' button

3. Download either the compressed tar file

4. Extract the tar file and run the install script

5. Done

Barney

Well, being the noob that I am, what would be the command to run the install script :whistle:

And will this work with 64bit - the errors I get are usually to do with not supporting 64bit

[Mouldy Punk]

./script-name I'd assume.

[Barney T. Administrators]

Follow these instructions:

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1. Click the "Download .tar.gz" link. A dialog box will appear asking you where to save the file.

2. Save the .tar.gz file to your desktop and wait for the file to download completely.

3. Unpackage the file. A directory called install_flash_player_9_linux will be created.

4. In terminal, navigate to this directory and type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer. Click Enter. The installer will instruct you to shut down your browser(s).

5. Once the installation is complete, the plug-in will be installed in your Mozilla browser. To verify, launch Mozilla and choose Help > About Plug-ins from the browser menu.

To "unpackage" your file, just right-click on it in your file manager and choose "Extract Here".

[metallithrax]

  barneyt said:

Follow these instructions:

Followed them earlier, error 64bit not supported. Is there a separate download for 64bit flash player maybe?

[Barney T. Administrators]

The 32-bit works fine for me on my 64-bit box........ I got the same warning. Remember Firefox is 32-bit.

You can read the comments on it here:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/01/17/fl...final-released/

[metallithrax]

I will try again tomorrow. Also, can some help with this:

I have 2 PC's wireless networked, both running XP, one dual booting with Ubuntu. The dual boot has 1 shared partition and 1 full drive shared in Windows (for storage of music etc). When I am running Ubuntu, is there a way to have the Windows PC still read the shared partition and drive? And maybe have Ubuntu read the music from these drives as well.

[metallithrax]

  barneyt said:

The 32-bit works fine for me on my 64-bit box........ I got the same warning. Remember Firefox is 32-bit.

You can read the comments on it here:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/01/17/fl...final-released/

Well, I copied the file stated to the folder and it makes no difference.

Also, after extracting the downloaded file, I cannot browse to that folder in terminal - it tells me it isn't there.

[Barney T. Administrators]

Ok.... I know that this can be done, because I have done it.............. so let's do a step-by-step:

1) Create a folder in your home directory called flashplayer.

2) Download and save the .tar.gz file to the folder you created (flashplayer).

3) In your file directory (Nautilus or whatever you use to view the files in your home directory), go to that folder and right click on the

.tar.gz file.

4) Right-click on that file and choose "Extract Here" from the menu options.

5) Another subfolder will be created in your flashplayer folder called install_flash_player_9_linux.

6) Open your terminal and navigate to that subfolder. You do not need to use "su" as a command since you will be installing it locally.

Type in the path as follows: cd /home/barney (use your home name here)/flashplayer/install_flash_player_9_linux. No

spaces except between cd and /home My path would be: cd /home/barney/flashplayer/install_flash_player_9_linux

7) Now you will be in the correct folder. Type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer

8) Follow the prompts to install.

Hope that this helps.

[SoapyHamHocks Member]

Download the .debs from the ubuntu forums , place them in a folder , cd to that folder , sudo dpkg -i *.deb.

[metallithrax]

  barneyt said:

Ok.... I know that this can be done, because I have done it.............. so let's do a step-by-step:

1) Create a folder in your home directory called flashplayer.

2) Download and save the .tar.gz file to the folder you created (flashplayer).

3) In your file directory (Nautilus or whatever you use to view the files in your home directory), go to that folder and right click on the

.tar.gz file.

4) Right-click on that file and choose "Extract Here" from the menu options.

5) Another subfolder will be created in your flashplayer folder called install_flash_player_9_linux.

6) Open your terminal and navigate to that subfolder. You do not need to use "su" as a command since you will be installing it locally.

Type in the path as follows: cd /home/barney (use your home name here)/flashplayer/install_flash_player_9_linux. No

spaces except between cd and /home My path would be: cd /home/barney/flashplayer/install_flash_player_9_linux

7) Now you will be in the correct folder. Type ./flashplayer-installer to run the installer

8) Follow the prompts to install.

Hope that this helps.

ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the

Adobe Flash Player installer.

no luck yet.

[Quillz]

  metallithrax said:

ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the

Adobe Flash Player installer.

no luck yet.

Then there is nothing you can do. You'll have to wait for Adobe to release Flash Player 9 for 64-bit systems.

[Mouldy Punk]

Or, isn't there a way to install a web browser to use 32bit librarys and then do the same for flash...I have no idea how to do it, I just remember reading something about that's how you install flash on 64bit linux.

*googles*

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxAMD64FlashJava

^^ might be useful

[metallithrax]

Thanks for the help everyone.

I have installed 32bit firefox and flash plugins and it works OK now.

[Barney T. Administrators]

  metallithrax said:

Thanks for the help everyone.

I have installed 32bit firefox and flash plugins and it works OK now.

Hooray! :woot:

Glad that it worked for you!

[metallithrax]

  barneyt said:

Hooray! :woot:

Glad that it worked for you!

All good, but after running an update to 6.10, nothing loads. So I am now downloading 6.10 with a view to installing from scratch.

Speak to you again soon. I promise. :)

[Barney T. Administrators]

Anytime, my friend! :D

[metallithrax]

  barneyt said:

Anytime, my friend! :D

Well, it's downloaded, and I am away all weekend so it will be next week. Speak to you soon Barney. :)