Problems with adobe flash player on Karmic 64 bit

Asked by Anton¡o Sch¡fano

After the update to karmic, when I look (e.g.) at videos on YouTube, I cannot click on the flash controls, like the play/pause button, the slider for the position, the volume, except maybe the first time that I try. This happens only on my 64bit box, while it is working fine on the 32 bit netbook. Any ideas?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

have you tried 64bit flash?

uninstall all flash plugins:

dpkg -l | grep flash

will show which you have

You can then run this command to install 64bit flash:

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins; cd ~/.mozilla/plugins; wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; rm ./libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Close all firefoxes (I'm guessing you do, everybody else does) then relaunch

Done

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Anton¡o Sch¡fano (skiantoz) said :
#2

It worked! I actually put the library directly in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, to have it work for all users.
Thanks a lot!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

Thats fine. Ive NEVER had luck with the package that installs flash. I ALWAYS do it this way. The folder you have used is fine.

Good work

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Johan (johan-andersson-78) said :
#4

Thanx! I had the exact same problem!

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Flamey (enzalx) said :
#5

How would I fix this if i'm using google-chrome?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#6

run this instead:

cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/; sudo wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; sudo tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz; sudo rm ./libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Done

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Harold (hbar12) said :
#7

Nope. Tried all that. Nothing works. Am even changing graphics driver again. I suspect a bad install of the Ubuntu previous to the latest. Previous to the one before 10.10. It worked as 32 bit 62 nix.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#8

@Harold you are on a different unstable release so...

Please make new question from here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
you will get better chance to get right answer on a fresh tagged "open" question.
Solved or answered questions are usually not read from answering people.

Thank you

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Nilav (nilavkiit) said :
#9

I have installed 32-bit adobe flash player how can i upgrade it to 64-bit

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#10

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a

Thanks