Fedora 11 Flash Plugin x86_64

July 3, 2009 | By Fabio Milano In Fedora |

Scenario / Question:

How do I get flash to work on Fedora 11 x86_64 64bit version

Solution / Answer:

Manually download install flash-plugin

Installing flash-plugin x86_64

Download the flash player plugin from Adobe

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Install libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins directory

As of this writing the version is 10.0.22.87

# mkdir -p /opt/FlashPlugin

# cd /opt/FlashPlugin

# wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

# tar xzf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

# cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

Restart FireFox

** This plugin is only Alpha **

“This is a prerelease version of the Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software 64-bit Linux platforms. It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure new features function as expected, existing content plays back correctly, and there are no compatibility issues. “(http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html)

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    • 3 Comments so far

    1. rlh on July 4th, 2009

      Worked great. I uploaded a (mpeg) video to facebook, and couldn’t watch it using fedora 11.
      These instructions made it possible. Thanks.

    2. Ritesh on July 13th, 2009

      Hey! cool it works
      I have a Compaq Cq45 106AU laptop AMD Turion X2 with Fedora 11 x86_64 installed.

      It worked for me.

    3. Marc on October 4th, 2009

      #Thanks,
      #Works great unter Fedora 11 x86_64 / Firefox 3.5.3

      #I had to grab the plugin with this link:
      wget /flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

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