Mon, Dec 14 2009 | Published in Fedora & RedHat, Linux Mint, Techie, Ubuntu & Kubuntu, Web Browsers, openSUSE & SUSE

64-Bit Native Linux Macromedia Flash – openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu

By: ben.kevan

Recently Adobe released a native 64-Bit native version of the popular Flash plugin.

Here’s an excerpt from their site:

Furthering Adobe’s commitment to the Linux community and as part of ongoing efforts to ensure the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, an alpha refresh of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux operating systems was released on December 8, 2009 and is available for download. This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux distributions and removes the need for 32-bit emulation.

You can download the packages here.

On my openSUSE installation I went ahead and removed the currently installed flash, that were installed via RPM:

sudo zypper remove flash-player pullin-flash-player

I then downloaded and installed flash plugin, into my browser-plugins directory:

wget –directory-prefix=/tmp http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

cd /tmp

tar xvf libflashplayer-10.0.42.34.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

su -c “mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/”

Now you can verify in your browser (Opera or Firefox at least) that your plugin was installed by going to about:plugins”

In Opera I now see:

Shockwave Flashapplication/futuresplash spl
application/x-shockwave-flash swf
/usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

and

I verified it by going to the site:

and seeing:

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5 Comments

  • phocean
    December 14, 2009 | Permalink |

    Thank you for the tip. However, I would not recommend it for Firefox users. The 64 bit version is known – and I can confirm it, to crash the browser with segfault.

    That’s why, unfortunately, I have sticked to using nspluginwrapper so far.
    The issue has always been there, I believe since 2 years ago or something like that, so I wonder what Adobe is doing.
    Their “efforts” are a pity when you consider the time it takes them to move to 64 bits. :(

  • ben.kevan
    December 14, 2009 | Permalink |

    Firefox.. What’s that :D .. jk.. I typically use Opera.. I love that damn browser.

  • Jonas
    December 14, 2009 | Permalink |

    @phocean
    Really? I’ve used the 64-bit version since the first alpha-version was available and I’ve never had it crash on me.

    Nspluginwrapper though…tended to hog the cpu far too much for my liking.

  • phocean
    December 14, 2009 | Permalink |

    @Jonas
    Look at there :
    http://www.google.com/search?q=firefox%20flash%2064%20segfault&esrch=BetaShortcuts
    I am not the only one. But it is true that it happens only on some specific websites. So, if you are lucky, you may have never visited such one.
    For example, my browser always crashes there with the 64 bit version (not the 32 bits) :
    http://www.lefigaro.fr/
    That’s probably why it is still in alpha version…

  • collinm
    December 14, 2009 | Permalink |

    that strange, on some web site, i don’t see the flash… and on other that work fine…

    i see the flash plugin when i check in firefox with about:plugins

    @phocean no crash for me on http://www.lefigaro.fr/

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