[Discuss] Installing Flash in Kubuntu (or Ubuntu) AMD64 version

[Patrick]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:26:51 -0800
Gordon M. Craig wrote:

> Hi Hurray!
> 
> I too had a time trying to install Flash in Ubuntu 7.10; Patrick figured
> out something at the last meeting, and it is working great. But if the
> time comes that I need to reinstall it, your suggestion will be a big
> help, since I haven't been able to get either .tar gz or .rpm to unpack
> properly and do the install.

There are some additional hassles getting it to work on a
64-bit machine though.

How does that work, by the way?  Will some, but not all 32-bit
software work on it?  I've read that a few distros suggest
installing a 32-bit system [just for now, until 64-bit is a
little better supported], which will work, but won't take full
advantage of the new architecture.

Anyway, the .tar.gz flash package contained only the plugin,
and a script.  If you open a terminal and run the script, it
will put the plugin where Firefox expects to find it.  No
worries.

Not so simple getting it set up to work with Opera
[unsupported, but it does seem to work].  In that case I had to
read the script very carefully, look for pathnames to figure
out where it would want to install the flash plugin if the
script hadn't refused to run [will only work if it detects a
supported browser on your system], and then put it where Opera
expects to find it.  ;-P


> 
> Gord Craig.

Patrick.