Installing flash plugin for firefox in a x64 bits system
1) Go to the adobe website:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
2) Download the tar ball libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
3) Uncompress the tar ball
$ tar -zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
4) Copy the file libflashplayer.so in to the folder /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
5) Restart you firefox and enjoy
*If you still have some questions about the flash install on FC11, go to the fedora project website http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
June 18, 2009 at 4:44 am |
Refer also to our canonical page on the wiki:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
June 18, 2009 at 7:27 am |
Those with Fedora 11 x64, you can copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
If Flash doesn’t work, try quitting Firefox: File > Quit.
Worked perfectly for me when I tried quitting Firefox, rather than clicking the X on the top right of the window.
July 1, 2009 at 4:37 am |
Very helpful post.
Just thought that I would add a small point. You cant just drag drop the file. You get a permission denied error. You need to become root to write to the /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ directory.
The command for that is:
$su
Password: *******
#cp ‘/home/shaunak/Desktop/libflashplayer.so’ ‘/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins’
[Assuming you extracted to desktop.]
July 19, 2009 at 6:11 pm |
Thanks. I tried a lot of instructions to install Flash Player. But this was the only one that worked.
Many thanks
August 24, 2009 at 7:18 pm |
after copy libflashplayer.so i cant paste to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
linux newbie here.
September 3, 2009 at 12:10 am |
I could not get this to work at all until I found this page…
Thank you!
September 23, 2009 at 7:57 pm |
Thanks, works perfectly.
September 25, 2009 at 3:10 am |
You rock!
like these other guys.. I had huge problems till I found this blog. Good going!
Now, Got any ideas about getting adobe air running?
October 13, 2009 at 5:14 pm |
I followed numerous other websites who had “guaranteed” instructions, all of which failed. Yours is incredibly short and to-the-point, and best of all _works_. Thank you!
December 12, 2009 at 1:32 pm |
Thanks for the simple instruction! It worked fine with Fedora 11 x86_64. However, I have now upgraded to Fedora 12 x86_64 (clean install) and it doesn’t seems to work anymore. Do you know perhaps why? Best regards
August 15, 2011 at 5:42 am |
what if ur not the root user and dont know the password how to install it for just myself as the user..
August 24, 2011 at 5:11 pm |
Them you have a problem
. If you are the owner of the computer just recovery the root password and them install as root.