Install Flash Player 9 Beta in Ubuntu
Posted by Admin on October 19th, 2006
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Install Flash Player 9 in Ubuntu Dapper
First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following Repository list and save the file
deb http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper 3v1n0
deb-src http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper 3v1n0
Now you need to copy the key for this Repository list using the following
sudo wget http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/EDD1E155.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Update the source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install flash player Plugin using the follwoing command
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
One more method is you can install this from the source code.If you want to install source code download flashplayer from here
extract the tar.gz file and copy libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins or ~/.mozilla/plugins (check where this directory is located in your ubuntu desktop)
More applications Repository list can be found here
October 22nd, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Hey, this isn’t working for me. When I do the apt-get update, I get some error messages at the end:
Err http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper/3v1n0 Packages
404 Not Found
Fetched 3189B in 1s (1774B/s)
Failed to fetch http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/dists/dapper/3v1n0/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Reading package lists… Done
W: GPG error: http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org dapper Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2D6CFB44DD800CD9
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Afterwards I went ahead and tried apt-get install’ing the flashplugin-nonfree package:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
E: Couldn’t find package flashplugin-nonfree
October 22nd, 2006 at 9:10 pm
you need to run this command to copy the key
sudo wget http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/EDD1E155.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
and the run
sudo apt-get update
now you try to run the flash plugin installation.
hope this helps
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:16 am
Yeah, I’ve followed your instructions 100%, and when I had trouble, I did it again. Merely repeating part of your instructions because you apparently assume I’m a moron who didn’t bother to read them is not helping. Thanks for playing anyway.
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:00 am
try this from flash source code
sudo wget -c http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer9_update/FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvf FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz
sudo mv /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.7
sudo cp flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
hope this helps
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Which part of the fact he’s running an AMD64 isn’t making sense to you people?
Chuck – you’re stuffed. The Flash player is only for 32 bit systems. You might be able to get it to work by setting up a 32 bit system in a chroot as you would for FLash 7.
March 8th, 2007 at 1:48 am
my problem is
cannot open display: (null)
Run ‘gedit –help’ to see a full list of available command line options.