Download and install Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 (or x86_64):
Download 64-bit flash from here.
If you have flashplugin-nonfree installed, now is a good time to remove it as we will be using the labs version:
~$ sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
This leaves behind some junk. To remove them:
cd /usr/lib
sudo find . -name "npwrapper.libflashplayer.so" | xargs rm
And now install the plugin:
cp path_to_so_file_you_extracted.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Start firefox and have fun. Pandora.com no longer crashes:
And Hulu.com is working awesome:
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#1 by peter on November 17, 2008 - 10:15 pm
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you forgot the extra sudo you need to pass onto xargs
sudo find . -name “npwrapper.libflashplayer.so” | xargs sudo rm
#2 by luis on November 17, 2008 - 10:37 pm
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thanks for the post.
A quick note: on my Intrepid installation I had to copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Question: Have you experimented crashes on sites like cnn or discovery channel?
Cheers,
Luis
#3 by admin on November 17, 2008 - 10:39 pm
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Luis – cnn.com videos are working without crashes
#4 by Shane on November 17, 2008 - 10:54 pm
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It sure is awesome being able to browse the web without random gray windows and crashes!
#5 by Nathan on November 18, 2008 - 1:00 am
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Is there a reason (other than multi-user availability) to install in a system directory? I just drop the file in ~/.mozilla/plugins.
#6 by jodal on November 18, 2008 - 6:21 am
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Instead of using cd, find and xargs, where sudo is only really needed for the rm part:
sudo find /usr/lib -name npwrapper.libflashplayer.so -delete
#7 by Kulag on November 18, 2008 - 9:22 am
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It didn’t work for me, the plugin doesn’t show up in the Firefox plugins list, and Flash doesn’t work on websites.
#8 by Daniel T Chen on November 18, 2008 - 9:35 am
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We should have a package for 9.04 after UDS (where we’ll discuss multiarch and nspluginwrapper, among other things).
#9 by Vadi on November 18, 2008 - 11:51 am
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Just be aware that Adobe labelled this as ‘alpha’ quality (yes, their alphas are apparently quite stable and usable, but it’s an alpha nonetheless)
#10 by Anonymous on November 18, 2008 - 2:23 pm
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So now you realize why Linux will never reach the mainstream community.
A simple uninstall requires the command line. Atleast, if there was a standard command, a standard way to remove packages, it would be cool. But no, notonly do you have to apt-get remove, you have to clear up some junk using random sudo commands.
huh? Why can’t apt-get remove just clean the package? Why does it leave random junk? What’s the point of using a package manager if you have random junk being left behind? You might as well give a list of files that I should go around deleting manually.
#11 by jim on November 19, 2008 - 2:06 am
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@Anonymous – it’s intentional. It keeps out the riffraff.
#12 by Kulag on November 19, 2008 - 8:06 am
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I got it working. It seems the old plugin/nswrapper was still in memory.
#13 by John on November 20, 2008 - 12:28 am
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@Anonymous .. you don’t know much. You think windows or Mac software doesn’t leave files behind? There are great package managers for linux. This happens to be an alpha product which is not packaged yet.
#14 by Balkoth on November 20, 2008 - 3:14 am
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“random junk”, ie npwrapper.libflashplayer.so, should be removed via apt-get instead :
sudo apt-get remove –purge nspluginwrapper
This will also remove flashplugin-nonfree.
And this can be done without the command line, just use synaptic.
#15 by David on November 20, 2008 - 7:18 pm
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Ubuntu just updated firefox to version 3.0.4, and I think that changed the directory you need to move the plugin from:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
to
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
#16 by Brad on November 24, 2008 - 11:50 pm
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I’ve still got no results at Adult Swim’s website under Intrepid.
http://www.adultswim.com/video/index.html
Anyone have good results at the above url?
#17 by Angus77 on November 26, 2008 - 11:33 am
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Can’t get it to display anything…not even grey boxes or a notice that I need to install a flash plugin…
#18 by Benjamin on April 1, 2009 - 10:21 am
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Hey I put the .so file to the folder, and the flash player worked. But now the day after it is broken again – while the .so file is still in the specified folder. What can I do to fix this?
Thanks
#19 by Benjamin on April 1, 2009 - 10:23 am
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btw. I also added the file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins …
#20 by sharms on April 2, 2009 - 12:55 pm
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Benjamin,
There are only so many places the plugins can be read, so I would check those plugin directories again and make sure there isn’t anything that shouldn’t be there.
A good step in diagnosing plugin problems is put ‘about:plugins’ in your address bar and see what firefox is actually loaded. If there are multiple flash plugins there, you definitely have extra plugins in your directories you should remove.