User:Renich/HowTo/Flash64-bitNative

Flash 64-bit (native) Installation HowTo

This HowTo covers the Flash 64-bit native plugin installation on Fedora 10.

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: Adobe Bug and Issue Management System

The installation instructions have been interpreted from: Adobe Labs' Linux 64-bit Alpha Release Notes

System Requirements

• Fedora 10 (others untested)
• Firefox

Procedure

Remove all previous Flash installations

[renich@introdesk ~]$ su -c 'yum remove flash-plugin'

Remove nspluginwrapper

Since nspluginwrapper is said to degrade performance (known issues), we must remove it.

[renich@introdesk ~]$ su -c 'yum remove flash-plugin'

Download the plugin

At the time of the writting of this HowTo, you can download the plugin from here. Please visit Adobe Labs for more information.

Extract it

[renich@introdesk Download]$ tar -xzf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz 

Move it into place

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.

[renich@introdesk Download]$ mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins && mv libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

If you want to enable Flash 10 globaly, you can install it on the /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins directory.

[renich@introdesk Download]$ su -c 'mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins'

Testing

Open Firefox and go to your favorite Flash-enabled site for a test.

Troubleshooting

Please, be sure to follow the steps located at: Flash Player's Installation Notes

References

• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes_64bit.html