On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:05:51 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: > This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, > especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in > mirror<g>). > > Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > To find out where to install, go to "about:plugins" in Firefox, and > see where your current version of libflashplayer.so is installed. In > my case it's /opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so > > To install... > > * for 64-bit version download the file > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz > > * for 32-bit version download the file > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz > > * exit Firefox > > * mv your current copy of libflashplayer.so to another directory as a > backup, in case the new one doesn't work for you > > * extract libflashplayer.so from the downloaded tar.gz into the > directory which you removed libflashplayer.so from. > > * fire up Firefox, and away you go > > * note that when the release version comes out, you'll need to > manually remove the Preview Release libflashplayer.so
I've just installed it and it's working nicely for me. Thanks for the link and install instructions. After creating directory /opt/Adobe/flash-player/ and extracting the tarball, I needed to create a symlink for /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so, and then restart firefox. David
