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| = Flash 64-bit (native) Installation HowTo =
| | This is not needed. Please, visit Fedora's official [[Flash]] HowTo. |
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| This HowTo covers the Flash 64-bit native plugin installation on Fedora 10. | |
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| {{Admon/important | Be aware that, at the moment of the writing of this HowTo, the Flash 10 plugin is in alpha development state; don't expect it to work perfectly and try to contribute a bit with bug reporting at their bug management site; at: [http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Adobe Bug and Issue Management System] }}
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| The installation instructions have been interpreted from: [http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes_64bit.html Adobe Labs' Linux 64-bit Alpha Release Notes]
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| == System Requirements ==
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| * Fedora 10 (others untested)
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| * Firefox
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| == Procedure ==
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| === Remove all previous Flash installations ===
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| [renich@introdesk ~]$ su -c 'yum remove flash-plugin'
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| === Remove nspluginwrapper ===
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| Since nspluginwrapper is said to degrade performance [http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes_64bit.html#known (known issues)], we must remove it.
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| [renich@introdesk ~]$ su -c 'yum remove flash-plugin'
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| </pre>
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| === Download the plugin ===
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| At the time of the writting of this HowTo, you can download the plugin from [http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html here]. Please visit [http://labs.adobe.com/ Adobe Labs] for more information.
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| === Extract it ===
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| [renich@introdesk Download]$ tar -xzf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
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| </pre>
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| === Move it into place ===
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| If you want to install it for personal use or you don't have access to root privileges, just copy it into your home directory's .mozilla/plugins directory. Create if if necesary.
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| [renich@introdesk Download]$ mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins && mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins | |
| </pre>
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| If you want to enable Flash 10 globaly, you can install it on the /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins directory.
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| [renich@introdesk Download]$ su -c 'mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins'
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| </pre>
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| == Testing ==
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| Open Firefox and go to your favorite Flash-enabled site for a test.
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| == Troubleshooting ==
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| Please, be sure to follow the steps located at: [http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes_64bit.html#install Flash Player's Installation Notes]
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| == References ==
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| * http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes_64bit.html
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| * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash
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