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How does someone install the new beta version of flash 11?

Thomas Ward
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TheXed
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Install Flash-Aid and run the extension Wizard. Flash-Aid allows to install Flash 64bit from Adobe Labs (32bit from repos and Chrome too), it removes conflicting plugins and apply performance tweaks. Additionally, it has a plugin update checker, so you can be notified about new beta versions.

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    Definitely the safest and easiest way. The removing of conflicts helps greatly. – wojox Jul 15 '11 at 21:51
  • It got safer now (v 2.2.0), with SSL and plugin hash check :-) – lovinglinux Jul 15 '11 at 23:10
  • @ lovinglinux: how do you check which version of flash your using since installing the beta version from adobe labs doesn't show up in any package manager? – 13east Jul 16 '11 at 00:21
  • Type about:plugins in the address bar of Firefox, Chrome or Opera. you can also configure Firefox to show the full path, by changing the preference plugin.expose_full_path in about:config – lovinglinux Jul 16 '11 at 17:39
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As shown here http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/adobe-releases-flash-player-11-beta.html you can use the following commands:

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/kde4

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

You can also follow the manual installation as shown in the link above

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Chriskin
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  • you shouldn't need to be installing KDE4 in order to make it work. The user wasnt specific about which version of Ubuntu is needed. As such, /usr/lib/kde4 isnt a needed folder. – Thomas Ward Jul 15 '11 at 17:52
  • The tar provided by adobe includes kde files as well and sevenmachines flash-installer gives error if directory is not made. – sagarchalise Jul 15 '11 at 17:57
  • so you are saying that the installer is dependent on KDE libraries? – Thomas Ward Jul 15 '11 at 18:10
  • The article above mentioned that " ..because the latest Flash comes with some KDE libraries so you need to create that folder to avoid an error on non-KDE systems"

    It didn't create any performance issue on my gnome system though, if that's what you are worried about

     – Chriskin Jul 15 '11 at 19:26
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The sevenmachine ppa is the best bet to keep up-to-date with flash 64 bit. Otherwise download the tar archive for linux from here.

extract it and save the libflashplayer.so file on mozilla plugin path. Either locally or on /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin. You can copy the files mentioned inside the tar on respective places .i.e inside /usr folder avoiding the kde ones if you don't use kde

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