64bit Adobe Flash player install

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/301791

and scroll down a bit further and you find pretty good instructions.

I'll copy it here to make it easier:

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get autoremove (removes nspluginwrapper and others)

then go to

usr/lib/firefox/plugins
usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

and in each case, remove the symbolic links in the plugin directories pointing to nspluginwrapper and put the downloaded libflashplayer.so instead. Then it works!

(EDIT: if you never installed flashplugin-nonfree, then you don't have to uninstall it of course so forget about the first two lines.)

So basically, if you never had the flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper: all you need to do is put libflashplayer.so in the two directories above. You have to use root privileges since these are root directories.

Thank you for the quick reply. Been decades since I used Linux (Mandrake 5.0), so am a bit rusty.

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get autoremove (removes nspluginwrapper and others)

That went ok.

usr/lib/firefox/plugins empty, .. no files
usr/lib/mozilla/plugins contains 4 files:

 libtotem-basic-plugin.so libtotem-mully-plugin.so
libtotem-gmp-plugin.so libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so

>>and in each case, remove the symbolic links in the plugin directories pointing to nspluginwrapper

huh? I be's a noob

>>and put the downloaded libflashplayer.so instead. Then it works!

will put that lil sucker right in there .. both folders ,.. after I get clarification on those 4 files. Then what? Reboot? thanks again.

I don't think you have to reboot, maybe restart firefox. As for the symbolic links, if you never had nspluginwrapper installed, then you don't have any symbolic links of course.

You know what a symbolic link is? It links to a file in a different directory, in the terminal it looks like this:
--> nspluginwrapper...

Btw, those 4 files are your other firefox plugins, don't delete them! Just add the new one. So forget about deleting symbolic links, this was just in case you had this other "pluginwrapper" (which was only necessary before there was a 64 bit flashplayer for linux).

First I want to thank you again for helping me. I am not sure what is happening because I used terminal to get to usr/lib/firefox/plugins and usr/lib/mozilla/plugins last night. I am almost positive I got there. Today, I 'went there' with 'flash file browser' and those locations do not exist. I must have been exhausted and frustrated.

The structure is

 usr/lib/firefox-3.0.6/plugins which is empty.

There is another structure

usr/lib/firefox-3.0.6/firefox-addons/plugins which is empty.

and

usr/lib/firefox/extensions

and finally usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

So, I am assuming put a copy of the so file in usr/lib/firefox-3.0.6/plugins (?) and usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

If this is right, please confirm. THEN, for the heck of it, I tried putting a copy in just usr/lib/firefox-3.0.6/plugins and got a permissions problem. Been spending 2 hours trying to find the solution to that with no luck. Don't know if you need description of permissions or not; will provide if requested.

"You know what a symbolic link is?" I do now, . just don't know how to recognize one.

I don't THINK I am an idiot, just careful and prudent. Thank you again.

You are terrific. Thank you. Works.

Thanks Bernhard, that solved my question.