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How to install Adobe Flash Player 10 beta 2 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

July 4th, 2008 · Posted by Toor · 6 Comments

  1. Download Flash Player 10 beta 2 for Linux from here. Save the .tar.gz file to your desktop.
  2. Open your terminal, go to Desktop folder:
    cd ~/Desktop
  3. Unpackage the .tar.gz file:
    tar zxvf flashplayer10_install_linux_070208.tar.gz
  4. Go to install_flash_player_10_linux folder:
    cd install_flash_player_10_linux
  5. Installing Flash Player 10 beta 2:
    cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

That’s it. Restart Firefox.

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos

6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Guney C. Gokoglu // Jul 13, 2008 at 9:09 am

    It has a package at backports rep.

  • 2 szandor // Jul 29, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    there’s actually a script in the install_flash_player_10_linux directory you can run as root or self. also, as you are referring to 8.04, we can assume pulseaudio is installed by default. which means you can remove libflashsupport when dropping flash 9.

  • 3 shankhs // Aug 16, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    I want to point out the mistake in the last line where the libflashplayer.so is to be copied
    read the last line as:
    cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
    (source-http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=772490)
    I think rest of the instructions are gr8…
    Thanx for the help!

  • 4 ThePirate // Aug 16, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    Thanks much!

    This is the only working and simple tutorial I found on the net about installing flash player on Ubuntu 8.04.

  • 5 Onlysome // Sep 4, 2008 at 10:02 am

    I followed the instructions and got these results

    cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so’: Permission denied
    daniel@daniel-laptop:~/Desktop/install_flash_player_10_linux$

    It wont let me download it. Is there something I have to switch on or off for it to work? I’m quite new to this OS. Still trying to learn my way around.

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