Friday, August 29, 2008

Installation of Adobe Flash Player 9 on 64 bit Linux

Follow the simple series of commands in order to install the Adobe Flash player 9 on 64 bit Linux.

Can't view open flash chart or can't able to play flash on your browser, follow the simple steps to install it on 64 bit linux machines.

  1. wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
  2. tar -zxf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
  3. mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins/
  4. mv install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer.xpt install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
  5. nspluginwrapper -i ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
  6. close all firefox instances and restart iceweasel/firefox/whatever