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Install Adobe Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10

tombuntu.com — Adobe’s doing something interesting on their download page now. As well as a tar.gz download and a few for other distributions, there is now an Ubuntu deb package and an Ubuntu Apt-URL link. The Apt-URL link points to a package not in the Ubuntu repository (adobe-flashplugin),.

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  • weizbox, on 10/16/2008, -0/+5wget from a bloggers site and run a script as root? Sorry... but that's just a tad bit sketchy. :P
  • iKnowKungFoo, on 10/17/2008, -0/+3I gave it a shot and it seems to work. Here's the transcript. The only questionable ping is the call to the boundlesssupremacy site. It's a Unreal Tournament clan site. Please let me know if anything jumps out as needing to be removed.

    -- Removed current flash plug-in --
    x@x:~$ sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
    [sudo] password for x:
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    libwxbase2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-0 libimlib2
    Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
    flashplugin-nonfree
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    After this operation, 168kB disk space will be freed.
    Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
    (Reading database ... 179544 files and directories currently installed.)
    Removing flashplugin-nonfree ..

    -- Running his installer --
    .
    x@x:~$ wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash10_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_en.sh
    --20:29:50-- http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_en.sh
    => `flash10_en.sh'
    Resolving queleimporta.com... 64.13.192.112
    Connecting to queleimporta.com|64.13.192.112|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 1,710 (1.7K) [text/x-sh]

    100%[====================================>] 1,710 --.--K/s

    20:29:50 (2.12 MB/s) - `flash10_en.sh' saved [1710/1710]

    Closing Firefox
    Downloading and instaling Getlibs for required libraries
    --20:29:50-- http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/ge ...
    => `getlibs-all.deb'
    Resolving www.boundlesssupremacy.com... 209.123.149.151
    Connecting to www.boundlesssupremacy.com|209.123.149.151|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 6,498 (6.3K) [text/plain]

    100%[====================================>] 6,498 --.--K/s

    20:29:54 (86.47 KB/s) - `getlibs-all.deb' saved [6498/6498]

    Selecting previously deselected package getlibs.
    (Reading database ... 179532 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking getlibs (from getlibs-all.deb) ...
    Setting up getlibs (2.06) ...
    Removing previous installs of flash:
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    Package flashplugin-nonfree is not installed, so not removed
    Package gnash is not installed, so not removed
    Package gnash-common is not installed, so not removed
    Package mozilla-plugin-gnash is not installed, so not removed
    Package swfdec-mozilla is not installed, so not removed
    Package libflashsupport is not installed, so not removed
    The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    libwxbase2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-0 libimlib2
    Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
    nspluginwrapper*
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    After this operation, 381kB disk space will be freed.
    (Reading database ... 179532 files and directories currently installed.)
    Removing nspluginwrapper ...
    Installing ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    ia32-libs is already the newest version.
    ia32-libs set to manually installed.
    The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    libwxbase2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-0 libimlib2
    Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
    nspluginwrapper
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 113kB of archives.
    After this operation, 381kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2 [113kB]
    Fetched 113kB in 1s (76.9kB/s)
    Selecting previously deselected package nspluginwrapper.
    (Reading database ... 179506 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking nspluginwrapper (from .../nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
    Setting up nspluginwrapper (0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2) ...
    Getting libs
    The following i386 packages will be installed: libcurl3
    Continue [Y/n]? y
    Downloading ...
    Installing libraries ...
    The following i386 packages will be installed: libnss3-1d
    Continue [Y/n]? y
    Downloading ...
    Installing libraries ...
    The following i386 packages will be installed: libnspr4-0d
    Continue [Y/n]? y
    Downloading ...
    Installing libraries ...
    Installing Flash Player 10
    --20:33:10-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/c ...
    => `install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz'
    Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 96.6.10.70
    Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|96.6.10.70|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 3,958,745 (3.8M) [application/x-gzip]

    100%[====================================>] 3,958,745 751.69K/s ETA 00:00

    20:33:15 (782.12 KB/s) - `install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz' saved [3958745/3958745]

    install_flash_player_10_linux/
    install_flash_player_10_linux/flashplayer-installer
    install_flash_player_10_linux/libflashplayer.so
    Linking the libraries so that firefox can see them.
    Done :-)
    You may re-start Firefox now

  • weizbox, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1Did you see anything fishy in the script itself (too lazy to check it out)? It won't print everything it's doing to terminal, but rather only show you what it wants to show... so it's hard to know exactly what it's actually doing from the output.
  • alexcuervo, on 10/16/2008, -3/+3For 64 bit users see "The easiest way to install Flash 10 on Ubuntu 64 bits" at http://queleimporta.com/the-easiest-way-to-install ...
  • alexcuervo, on 10/25/2008, -0/+0That is why all the source code is posted under GPL on the blog. Instead of complaining and being lazy as you self-procalim to be, check the source code first.
    The boundlesssupremacy download is for getlibs, the package that is able to get 32 bit libraries on 64 bit systems.
    It happens that the author of getlibs is also the author for the boundlesssupremacy site.
  • jamesatdigg, on 10/17/2008, -2/+1here is nice guide http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-adobe-fla ...

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