Getting Flash to work on a 64 bit system?

[Judicator]

Since flash has an alpha version out here: labs dot adobe dot com/technologies/flashplayer10/ releasenotes_64bit dot html

I'd rather avoid doing any ugly hacks that seem to be all over the internet prior to the release of the above.

Anyway I followed the instructions there and put libflashplayer.so in my plugins folder. Before doing so I removed everything that came up in package manager under "swf" and "flash." However, flash still doesn't work. When I look at current add-ons in firefox I see a bunch listed along with "Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32." This doesn't seem right if I'm looking for r64 instead of r32, but I'm not sure what the r denotes.

Any idea what's wrong?

I'm happy to do any more tests if they would help solve the problem.

[coopstah13]

installing flash on ubuntu is easy, if you are running firefox go to a site with flash, and when it prompts you to install the plugin, do it.

You can also install the package flashplugin-nonfree or ubuntu-restricted-extras

[reed9]

I've downloaded the 64 bit flash as you describe and never had problems with it. What is the name of the file that you downloaded?

It should be called libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz. I believe the r32 is in reference to the 32 in the release version.