![]() ![]() ![]() Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash & sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer This is easily done by pasting the following into a terminal: Next, we need to add the Adobe Flash repository to the APT sources, update the sources list, then download and install the 64-bit plugin. You can always try just skipping all that and seeing if the 32- and 64-bit versions happily co-exist, but since the 32-bit one is failing you anyway, you may as well uninstall it and save any potential headaches. swf files in Nautilus, etc, and doesn’t appear to cause any conflicts. ![]() You can leave swfdec-gnome if that is installed, as that handles things like giving thumbnail previews for. I personally removed the popular gnash just to be safe (since it and the Adobe one always fought for supremacy, though that was never the problem, considering I installed Gnash after the Adobe product failed me). If you suspect you may have installed some open source Flash plugins, open Synaptic and enter “ flash” in the Quick search bar. What you first need to do is go into Synaptic and completely remove the package flashplugin-installer, or do so with the following command in a terminal (if you never installed it, obviously you can skip this step): While this might not be the solution to help everyone, hopefully it is the answer to your Flash woes. While you could be forgiven for not trusting a product that isn’t even at its first beta level yet, from what I have seen it is stable, and should be the answer you are looking for. But 64-bit users often find it is one big mess, and this has nothing to do with Ubuntu, as Adobe has only ever released a 32-bit version, as incredible as that may seem.Īt the time of writing, there is the first alpha 64-bit version available, so things are looking up. In fact, installing Flash support on 32-bit i386 systems it can be even easier than doing the same in Windows. ![]() While Flash support on Linux distros used to be a nightmare, most people these days rarely need to bother fiddling with it. 32-bit Ubuntu users: You can read this for some general info, but for installation of Flash use this guide instead. ![]()
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