ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron x86_64, firefox 3 and flash plugin
Posted by lazybit on June 4, 2008
I recently installed a fresh copy of Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE4. Quite nice I must say.
I always had trouble installing flash and firefox on my 64bit distros, but this time it was really painless.
sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper flashplugin-nonfree lib32nss-mdns
That’s it. I tried gnash but it would not work. Hopefully in some future release.
Thank’s to Andy for providing a nice howto.
Michael Barkowski said
Nice to know – thanks for the info
michael skramstad said
Firefox on Ubuntu has a tendency to not display Flash properly, particularly with multiple instances of FF and Flash. Have you overcome this problem?
lazybit said
What do you mean. I didn’t find any problems regarding playback or playback in multiple instances. Could you be more precise? Can I reproduce this problem somehow?
spork said
THANKS! I was looking for this. I was trying to do it by myself but the flash installer was telling me the x86_64 architecture wasn’t supported.
JD said
Thanks! New to ubuntu and this helped alot
SpinFusor said
Unbelievable… I must have tried everything out there when this page should definitely be bumped to the top when searching for a solution to run flash in a 64bit enviro using latest Hardy Heron!!!
Dumbo said
Nice!! Wish you could du the same with sun java 1.6
koen said
yips works like a charm !!!!! tnx mate !