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Adobe Flash 64 bits under openSUSE 64bits (11.2,11.3,11.4,factory)

December 17th, 2010 by

Non Free

Dear readers, we sometimes have to use non-free software. This post will learn you how to get the latest flash player supporting natively your favorite openSUSE Linux 64 bits distribution.

Keep in mind that it is preview software, actually pre-release code quality, and with it you will not receive any security updates. Keep an eyes on it, and refresh it manually if newer version are published

So why to try that software ? My answer is simple : it’s a native 64bits plug-in. So it’s interaction with your native 64bits browser, should give you a better stability. My experience using it in the last 4 months is pretty good, no Firefox crash due to flash. (Several pro week or day with the 32bits 10.0 version)

Get ready

Remove any installed 32bits packages

First things to do, remove all actual 32bits flash installed.

zypper rm flash-player pullin-flash-player

Get the lastest Flash square preview

Go the main project page Square
Read the informations, and the Adobe License you implicitly accept by using this software.
Then Download the tar.gz

cd /tmp
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz

Uncompress & Install

tar -xvzf flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
sudo chown root:root libflashplayer.so
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so

Test

Close any firefox or konqueror running, and restart them
under firefox, launch the about:plugins uri

and you should see

Shockwave Flash
File: libflashplayer.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 10.3 d162

Have a nice surfing session, if you like flash website .

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7 Responses to “Adobe Flash 64 bits under openSUSE 64bits (11.2,11.3,11.4,factory)”

  1. Peter
    December 17, 2010 at 21:55 |

    With chromium the newer 64 bit versions had problems, the plugin often crashed for me. An older 64 bit 10-alpha version works stable since many months now.

    • December 18, 2010 at 12:57 |

      Hi Peter, thanks for the information, so other will find their way.
      I would recommend to report this to the feedback adobe page ( link on the end of the main square page )

  2. A.J. Orians
    December 19, 2010 at 22:46 |

    Thank you! This was quite helpful for me!

  3. December 20, 2010 at 10:27 |

    Thanks, I was looking for this, couldn’t find the stuff on the chaotic Adobe pages.

  4. F_Sauce
    January 4, 2011 at 04:51 |

    This seems to work very well on my system. I have struggled far more with the 32 version and nspluginwrapper when using khtml (webkit worked better).

    Thank you!

  5. Chris
    February 17, 2011 at 11:27 |

    Package at OBS?

    • February 17, 2011 at 14:53 |

      If you know how to convince maintainers of non-oss that we should better have a native 64bits than a wrapper unstable 32bits. Tell me please 🙂
      It can’t be build under obs (due to non-free stuff), only Novell/suse.de people can have that on their own obs.