Just update and run the latest flashplayer 10.1 in 64 bit ubuntu. If you still want to read the boring stuff below, go ahead, I won't stop you
Today my experiment was running 10.1 adobe flash player on 64 bit ubuntu. I downloaded the deb from adobe site and tried installing it and I got an error saying about architecture mismatch. I blindly copied the 32 bit flashplayer shared object into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ but it refused to play
Then I started to search and ended up in the following rare info on how to install 32 bit 10.1 flash player beta in 64 bit ubuntu. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1329337
I tried as mentioned in the above post #1 for 10.1 flash player final and wow it worked in 64 bit lucid lynx!! Thank you very much to the post, I tried to post in that forum to thank, but the thread is karmic thread and closed, anyhow, thanks a lot for such a post.
I share my experiment with you for your reading pleasure and probable fun (hopefully)
Here is how I did it step by step as mentioned in the ubuntuforum #1 with screenshots
Step 1
Install flashplugin-installer from synaptic or through apt from command line
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Step 2
Remove old 10.x flash player
sudo rm /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
Step 3
Get adobe flashplayer 10.1 from adobe site and extract it
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
After extracting it you will be getting libflashplayer.so which is version 10.1
Step 4
Copy the extracted libflashplayer.so into /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/ folder
sudo cp ~/Downloads/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/
Step 5
Restart your browsers and verify flashplugin installed using about:plugins
Flashplayer 10.1 in action in firefox (64 bit firefox)
Flashplayer 10.1 in action in chromium (64 bit chromium from synaptic repositories)
Enjoy
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