Comments on: Install Flash Player 9 Beta in Ubuntu

By: harish says

harish says — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:48:03 +0000

my problem is
cannot open display: (null)
Run ‘gedit –help’ to see a full list of available command line options.

By: Mr F Bar Esq.

Mr F Bar Esq. — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:15:05 +0000

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.

By: Admin

Admin — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:00:53 +0000

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

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:16:09 +0000

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.

By: Admin

Admin — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:10:19 +0000

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

By: chuck

chuck — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:01:17 +0000

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