Adobe Flash for 64bit - what is proper way to install to 10.4? ; jor

giovanni_re john_re at fastmail.us
Fri Jun 11 20:15:20 UTC 2010


On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:59:55 -0700, "Johnneylee Rollins" <johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com> said:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:00 PM, giovanni_re <john_re at fastmail.us>
> wrote:
> > Installing on an AMD 64bit version of KUbuntu, which hasn't had flash installed yet.  Using Firefox, with NoScrit & AdBlockPlus extensions installed.
> >
> > News:  Adobe Goes To Flash 10.1, Forgoes Security Fix For 10
> > http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/10/226251/Adobe-Goes-To-Flash-101-Forgoes-Security-Fix-For-10
> >
> >
> > "So much for 64-bit (Score:5, Informative)
> > by innocent_white_lamb (151825) writes: on Thursday June 10, @07:11PM (#32529794)
> >
> > No more 64-bit Linux version:
> >
> > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html [adobe.com]
> >
> > The Flash Player 10.1 64-bit Linux beta is closed. We remain committed to delivering 64-bit support in a future release of Flash Player. No further information is available at this time."
> >
> > ==  On adobe's site,
> > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
> > What's the proper choice: ".deb for Ubuntu 8.04+", or "APT for Ubuntu 9.04+"
> > What is APT? - APackageTool, the debian package tool?
> >
> > Where is the 64bit version located??
...
> 
> sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras
> 
> ~SpaceGhost

I'm not seeing it, Johnneylee - did I miss seeing something? - see apt-get below.

&, so now i guess there is no 64 bit adobe flash?  So, what is the recommended setup for a 64 bit system (using firefox)?

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apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java cabextract icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea6-plugin libaccess-bridge-java libaccess-bridge-java-jni libofa0
  libtunepimp5 libtunepimp5-mp3 openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib ttf-liberation ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  tzdata-java unrar xulrunner-1.9.2
Suggested packages:
  libtunepimp5-dev libtunepimp-bin sun-java6-fonts ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-kochi-mincho
  ttf-wqy-zenhei ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-bengali-fonts
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  ca-certificates-java cabextract icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea6-plugin kubuntu-restricted-extras libaccess-bridge-java
  libaccess-bridge-java-jni libofa0 libtunepimp5 libtunepimp5-mp3 openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib
  ttf-liberation ttf-mscorefonts-installer tzdata-java unrar xulrunner-1.9.2
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