Real 64-bit Flash on amd64
Posted by ushimitsudoki on November 18, 2008
Hooray! Abode has released an actual 64-bit version of Flash! No more messing with nspluginwrapper or such trickery to install it.
It’s listed as a “prerelease” version on the Adobe site, but seems to be working fine[1] for me so far on the sites I have tried it.Here’s what I did to get it working:
Remove any old versions
To clean up all the old ndiswrapper stuff I did a:
sudo apt-get remove nspluginwrapper flashplugin-nonfree
I also checked for other ones I might have manually installed using:
jason@apollo:~/Desktop$ locate flash | grep -v home | grep so/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/libvisual-0.4/morph/morph_flash.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libflash680lx.so
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
I removed the flash ones (not the morph and openoffice ones.)
Download new version
Grab it from the download page. It is a .tar.gz, don’t expect a .deb.
NOTE: The version may have been updated, so pay attention to the file name.
Extract and install
jason@apollo:~/Desktop$ tar xvf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
libflashplayer.so
jason@apollo:~/Desktop$ cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
Check the installation
That’s it! Open up firefox and check “about:plugins” from the address bar. You should see something like this down at the bottom:
64-bit Flash Installed
Updated to add footnote:
[1] “working fine” in this case is definitely a your-mileage-may-vary situation. Unlike the 32-bit version, when this Flash crashes, the entire browser shuts down. I probably hit one site every couple days that crashes Flash and the browser.
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Me said
Holy geez batman it works. 32bit with nspluginwrapper did not work. It was listed in the about:plugins tab but this one actually is functional. I can’t wait for this to come out of alpha.
Vincenzo Romano said
For a system wide plugin installation, you can run this:
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins
Please, be warned also that it’s not to be put into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, at least as of Ubuntu 8.04.1 and Firefox 3.0.4.
In any case, this web page is great!
ushimitsudoki said
Vincenzo,
Thanks for the info and the kind words!
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matty said
ok… so… i did this (to /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins)… and now… i don’t even get the “gray box” that i got before… i loaded “about:plugins” and the flashplayer plugin shows… but no flash… this is really bugging me… thoughts?
Matt
Anthony Hildoer said
I automated the process of installing flash 32bit and 64bit in Ubuntu Desktop. It even works with pulseaudio. It works in feisty, gutsy, hardy, and intrepid.
Automated Flash Install:
http://www.hildoersystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76:automated-install-of-flash-10-for-ubuntu-desktop-32bit-and-64bit&catid=39:multimedia&Itemid=59
Vincenzo Romano said
There seems to be some problem.
In a rather random way FF freezes and you need to kill it.
It’s not related to browsing a flash site, though.
I have been able to do the following dump:
$ ps ax -o pid,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN -o comm | grep firefox
21398 futex_wait firefox
Then with gdb I have attached myself to the “running” process and have got the following stack:
(gdb) bt
#0 0×00007f5b14925cc5 in pthread_join () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0×00007f5af7844514 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#2 0×00007f5af76eaadc in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#3 0×00007f5af75dd2b3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#4 0×00007f5af77a6c0f in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#5 0×00007f5af7487bd8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#6 0×00007f5af74830fa in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#7 0×00007f5af747be8e in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#8 0×00007f5af7480379 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
#9 0×00007f5b1299fe36 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/libxul.so
#10 0×00007f5b125730fe in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/libxul.so
#11 0×00007f5b1257337d in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/libxul.so
#12 0×00007f5b12b4b036 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/libxul.so
#13 0×00007f5b12b202f6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/libxul.so
#14 0×00007f5b12aa4a1d in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/libxul.so
#15 0×00007f5b12944721 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/libxul.so
#16 0×00007f5b123ca082 in XRE_main () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/libxul.so
#17 0×00000000004016b4 in ?? ()
#18 0×00007f5b13c1c466 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#19 0×00000000004011b9 in ?? ()
#20 0×00007fff1cd576c8 in ?? ()
#21 0×000000000000001c in ?? ()
#22 0×0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#23 0×00007fff1cd58bb5 in ?? ()
#24 0×0000000000000000 in ?? ()
This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, apart that there could be some race condition in the plugin.
Brian said
Thanks, Anthony! Your fix worked like a charm!!
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 64-bit
john_doe said
Hello –
This worked for me, with the difference that I didn’t have a ./mozilla at home, so I moved libflashplayer.so directly to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Then I changed the permissions to
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9543400 2009-04-12 12:55 libflashplayer.so
because that’s what I saw withthe other plugins, like:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2009-04-12 04:05 libtotem-basic-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-basic-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2009-04-12 04:05 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2009-04-12 04:05 libtotem-mully-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-mully-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 2009-04-12 04:05 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
Are the permissions set right (i.e., “am I safe ?”)
john_doe said
Oh, I might also add that I cp’ed the libflashplayer.so also to that /usr/lib/opera/plugins and so now flash works with Opera too.
Vincenzo Romano said
JD,
using 777 (aka rwxrwxrwx) permission for system wide executables is hardly a good choice.
The file could be modifiable by anyone!
All other plugins have those permissions because they are symlink: real permissions are on the target files.
A good reasonable choice coult be 755 (aka rwxr-xr-x) or 644 (aka r-xr–r–).
Anyway, I had to delete the Adobe 64bit plugin as it was causing browser crashes and high CPU loads.
Andrew said
Thanks a lot for this!
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sublimevelo said
Thanks a bunch. Worked like a charm. ubuntu 9.0.4 64bit