Installing 64 bit flashplayer in Linux

Postby **viking60** » 16 Sep 2010, 12:07

Adobe has developed a new 64bit flash player for linux.
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Let me say this first:
If you do not know if you have 32bit or 64bit then you should ignore this tip.
There are two reasons for this:
1 You have 32bit (with 99.9% probability)
2 This will not work for you.

To make sure you can type

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uname -m

If your output is X86_64, then you are good to go.

Adobes 64bit flash reader for Linux:

Here we go:
Open a terminal:
su

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wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11/flashplayer11_b2_install_lin_64_080811.tar.gz

Updated 19.08.2011

This will download the flash file, but remember to check the version, it can change and differ from the one here. (It will when Adobe updates it)

Unpack flash player:

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tar zxvf flashplayer11_b2_install_lin_64_080811.tar.gz

And install it like this:

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sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

(If you had the old 64bit Alpha installed just say yes, to overwriting the file)

We go to the the folder:

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cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

And here we remove the old 32bit flash player that you may have installed:

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mv -f libswfdecmozilla.so libswfdecmozilla.backup

Ok we are finished but lets have a short final check:

Start Firefox and write about:plugins in the adress line. There should only be one listing regarding shockwave flash and look approximately like this:

Shockwave Flash

Fil: libflashplayer.so
Versjon:
Shockwave Flash 11.0 d1

MIME-type Beskrivelse Filtyper
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl

(If you want to read up on 64bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#32_vs_64_bit )

Postby **viking60** » 19 Aug 2011, 16:02

I have updated the links above to the latest 64bit flash player from Adobe that now comes as a beta version.
As always look when this is posted - it could already be outdated :-D

Postby **rolf** » 19 Aug 2011, 16:47

Thanks for the heads-up. It seems that, when I copied the flash library to plugins, it crashed Seamonkey!
However, restarting is not a problem and the version is Shockwave Flash 11.0 d1, correct?

Postby **viking60** » 19 Aug 2011, 17:34

Yup that's the one!
Copying it to Mozilla works for Opera and other browser too. They tend to take over the FF settings.
Seamonky is behaving nicely here.

Postby **rolf** » 19 Aug 2011, 17:57

Otherwise, the 64-bit player has been working in this Seamonkey. There is one speed test applet that worked with the old square pre-betas but, with the last 2 or so betas, freezes up the browser, temporarily, here: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flash=1

Then, a dialog pops up that allows me to kill it, and move on:

A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script?

Postby **viking60** » 19 Aug 2011, 18:09

In Mandriva 2010.2

Life is good :-D

Hardware (lshw):

Postby **rolf** » 20 Aug 2011, 00:52

How nice for you! :party

I'd think more likely something software gettin' in the way, over here. Some extension, some plugin, some thing.

Postby **viking60** » 20 Aug 2011, 01:38

Could it be a Java thing? Add-block setting?

Postby **rolf** » 20 Aug 2011, 02:05

There is this HTTPS Everywhere plugin from EFF that caught my eye. It's not really everywhere, for one thing. For another thing, that flash speed test wouldn't load until I disabled that plugin for that site. However, I'm pretty sure I started getting flash hangs on that speed test page before HTTPS Everywhere.

I just tried a different server on that page, same thing, aborted the script. Then, I went to add-ons manager to completely remove that plugin but the add-ons manager page hangs on "loading". It's been sitting like that for several minutes, now, probably restarting the browser suite will fix it. I think the new Seamonkey has several bugs that are biting me!

Postby **rolf** » 20 Aug 2011, 02:49

There's been 'extension creep' going on over here. I went through and threw out things I didn't seem to use or understand or that were incompatible with SM-2.3. Compatibility checker seemed to come up disabled every time I started SM, then enabled it, then re-started and I don't get what it does so that's gone. Ad blocker plus is out, tiny url creator is incompatible, flash got looks suspicious so bye-bye, a couple other incompatibles. Finally, I disabled every extension and every plugin except flash and that did not seem to make a difference.

What is repeatable is the speed test servers that are farther away, Ontario and Comcast Washington D.C. will complete the test; the rest freeze and have to be aborted. I think it is a matter of latency. 49 ms is the lowest latency that worked. In repeated tests, everything from those two servers was that or longer. Every other server was lower latency and every test froze.

Another factor that comes to mind is my new Comcast Cable internet service. It is Docsis 3 with 4 downstream bonded channels and 3 upstream bonded channels. Maybe that is mucking up the works. :confused

Postby **viking60** » 20 Aug 2011, 11:03

I would have thought that https Tor related stuff was the sinner. But now I have to recheck because i did only test Washington....
And one more thing: Are your plugins kept in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins?

Postby **viking60** » 20 Aug 2011, 11:16

Just checked with my Acer laptop (Arch) and the same thing happens here!
(32 bit)
I can do it in all the other browsers - So I would agree with the bug theory now.

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