Flash Player on AMD64 Ubuntu

May 12th, 2007

For a long time I haven’t had Flash working in Firefox on my Ubuntu machine because it runs on the AMD64 build. Well no more! I have fixed it. Previously, I had tried to follow the directions on the Ubuntu forums to get it working with nspluginwrapper. Now I’m not sure what I had done wrong in the past, but I tried to get it working again the other day and Presto, it worked.

So, my gift to you is flashinstall.sh, a quick script that will install nspluginwrapper (Now in Universe) and install Flash. To use it download it, open a terminal and perform these commands.

chmod +x flashinstall.sh
sudo ./flashinstall.sh

As always, all care has been taken that this won’t break anything, but there are no guarrantees. Enjoy.

Update: I have added some logic that will add the uPure64 repository to your sources.list file if it isn’t already there. This should sort out peoples problems of not being able to install nspluginwrapper. Thanks to Craig Heffner for the tip.

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15 Comments to “Flash Player on AMD64 Ubuntu”

  1. May 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
    Craig said:

    Nice.

    I spent so long trying to get this working on my box at work (64-bit FC6). Combined with not being able to get the IBM Java JRE working with Firefox I ended up giving up and going back to 32-bit.

    64-bit is good for servers, it’s a lot of effort for your everyday box though…

  2. May 16th, 2007 at 5:36 am
    Frank said:

    I tried the script but it came up with an error
    “E: Couldn’t find package nspluginwrapper”

    Any ideas?

  3. May 21st, 2007 at 7:11 am
    eks said:

    Yeah, me too, same error as Frank. Tried to search repositories in Synaptic for nspluginwrapper but didn’t found it. (Gonna try to install it manually now tho…)

  4. May 25th, 2007 at 11:53 am
    blog.craigheffner.com » My Pre-Installed Linux Laptop said:

    [...] a little more complex than I initially thought. After some Googling I found Michael Gall’s install script which worked wonderfully. I had to add the nspluginwrapper repository to /etc/apt/sources.list [...]

  5. May 30th, 2007 at 3:02 am
    Megan said:

    Is this Mike (Ned) Gall of Hobart?

  6. June 1st, 2007 at 9:50 am
    Shawn Q said:

    Hey, this worked perfectly! I ended a bout of Ubuntu for a while because of the endless amount of x86_64 nightmares, but, so far Feisty Fawn is proving quite capable of 64-bit now, especially with goodly folk like yourself solving these types of little things that can be So annoying. I vote to have this script on the ubuntu wiki!

  7. June 4th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
    matthew said:

    Thank using your scripts, flash work fine

  8. June 4th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
    Gaucho.ar said:

    Thank you Michael work great…. nice work dude!

  9. June 5th, 2007 at 9:38 am
    rj said:

    MANY THANKS… works well. I had to run it twice to get it installed. After the first run I was notified to run software update (I did) and then ran the script again and works great.

  10. June 14th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
    Brad Martin said:

    Scha-weet… you are the man. Yeah I kind of installed the 64bit ubuntu from ignorance. It does seem to have a lot more support than 64-bit Windows XP or Vista does.

  11. June 16th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
    Max said:

    me too )-:
    flashinstall.sh: line 31: nspluginwrapper: command not found
    cp: cannot stat `/root/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so’: No such file or directory
    ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so’ to `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so’: No such file or directory

  12. June 20th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
    Zach said:

    Oh my god, you’re my hero. I’ve been trying for hours to get this working, and a minute or two of running your script solved my problem. Thanks. :D

  13. June 21st, 2007 at 12:08 am
    BTQ said:

    This worked for me. I received the error mentioned above:
    cp: cannot stat `/home/$user/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so’: No such file or directory

    but it works. THANKS.

  14. June 25th, 2007 at 2:46 am
    NUKLHED said:

    This worked great. I ran it on two separate installations of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and it worked like a charm. Did get the same message (cp: cannot stat `/home/$user/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so’: No such file or directory) but it still worked. Thanks for all of your help and work with this!

  15. June 26th, 2007 at 11:34 am
    Luca Ferroni said:

    I get the same error (cp: cannot stat `/home/$user/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so’: No such file or directory) but it still worked.)

    Great job

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