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Quite the contrary it seams: Adobe to release Flash 64bit first on Linux. True it is only the beta version, and the MS-Windows and Mac OS-X 64bit versions will follow shortly¹, but still this demonstrates some serious commitment to Linux as an equal player in the desktop operating system market!

All we need now is Photoshop for Linux and we’re set 🙂

Installing the 64Bit flash plugin for Linux is painless although requires some command line experience:

There are no DEB or RPM packages yet, so to install this prerelease, download the 64bit Flash prerelease tarball and extract it. You should get a file named libflashplayer.so.

The next step is to remove your current installation of nspluginwrapper and flash-plugin (flashplugin-nonfree for Ubuntu/Debian users) using your system’s package manager.

After that is done, as root (sudo or su - as the case may be) copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and restart your browser.

And that’s it! in Firefox, open a new tab and type about:plugins to check if Flash was installed successfully – you should see an entry named “Shockwave Flash” if the install was successful (on my system it appears the first on the list – above the “Null plugin”).

Currently my short experience with the new Flash plugin is very good – no crashes yet, and the dreaded gray “nspluginwrapper has crashed” blocks are a history. Yay!

1. i.e. its been almost two weeks since the Linux release and there is no Windows version yet [↩]

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