Forcing Architecture Process - Flash Player Install

[killswitch]

Hey guys,

I am just about satisfied with my Linux set-up, but I am running into one more problem. I am trying to install Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.32.18

On Adobe’s website under the Linux download set-up screen, it has the drop-down box to select the format, which I chose .DEB (8.04+)

However, when the download begins, I get the error of it being the wrong architecture. I am running 64-bit, and this is apparently only supported with 32-bit.

I read some literature that says I will need to force the architecture at the terminal, but since it looks like I will now have to install this from the terminal, I would like to know if anyone can walk me through the process / tell me the commands I would need to follow to force the architecture of this flash player AND how to install it from terminal?

Thanks,

Dean

[coopstah13]

When you navigate to a flash enabled web site, firefox should be prompting you to install the plugin. If it is not, you can easily install flash using apt-get by installing the package flashplugin-nonfree or ubuntu-restricted-extras which also installs a bunch of other things like fonts, etc.

[reed9]

As mentioned, installing flash through your package manager is the easiest way.

If you want to download the 64 bit flash directly from Adobe, here is the download page.
Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 10

[killswitch]

Yeah I already tried sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Didn't work. I will try to get the 64-bit version form Adobe's site I guess

[killswitch]

Since the adobe download is a tar.gz, do I need to do anything special after the download?

[reed9]

What went wrong when you tried to install it through apt-get?

Do you have the multiverse section enabled?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

tar.gz is just a compressed file format, like zip. You need to extract the plugin, and put the resulting file in ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Note, this would then be local to your user. If you want to have it available system-wide, you'd put it in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins I think it is.

[killswitch]

Honestly I wouldn't be able to tell ya. I am on a Windows machine right now, at work. And I don't recall the exact message.