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Is there a way to get flash installed for firefox 3.0 on a 64 bit install of Gutsy?

Asked by Jim Hutchinson

That's pretty much it. I have Firefox 3.0 (gran paradiso) installed but flash isn't working. It does work on regular Firefox (2.0.0.11). Is there a way to get Firefox 3.0 to use that plugin or install a new plugin? When I try using Firefox it tells me I have to do it manually but that fails saying it doesn't work on 64bit architecture.

Thanks.

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mox_net (mox-net) said : 		#1

I got sort of the same problem but with Firefox 2.0.0.11)
I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 (getsy, amd_64) on a Compaq laptop (v5000) with a AMD 64, and I can't get the flash driver to work. I get an error message like this:
ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
       Adobe Flash Player installer.
I'm guessing the driver is probably not written for amd_64.
Could you give a hand with this?
Thanks !

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#2

Well, with firefox 2 it's easy. Just go to a flash site and click the install plugin. It will install the 32 bit version and a plugin wrapper. Works fine. Problem is with firefix 3.0.

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Bryan Haskins (bryan-h) said : 		#3

Download the Tar from the site, put libflashplayer.so in
/path/to/firefox/plugins assuming you use one downloaded yourself. Otherwise
you can use the installer, included in the very same archive to install to
firefox 3's path. Have fun.

On Dec 28, 2007 8:59 PM, Jim Hutchinson <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Question #20834 on Ubuntu changed:
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> Jim Hutchinson is still having a problem:
> Well, with firefox 2 it's easy. Just go to a flash site and click the
> install plugin. It will install the 32 bit version and a plugin wrapper.
> Works fine. Problem is with firefix 3.0.
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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#4

Okay, I ended up solving this a different way. After a bunch of playing around I eventually uninstalled flash altogether and then installed it as suggested here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636397

Then in a terminal i ran

nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

As suggested on http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html but I had to change the path slightly.

This got flash working for alpha 8 that is currently in the repos.

For Beta 2 I simply unpacked and then copied the libflahplayer.so from /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ to the plugin folder in the firefox 3 folder on my desktop.