Adobe Flash 11 Made Available in Ubuntu

By , Published October 10, 2011

Adobe Flash 64 bit is now directly installable in Ubuntu using the Canonical Partner repo, replacing the need for additional 3rd party PPAs to be added. 

The Canonical partner channel contains applications and utilities from third party software vendors that, for varying reasons, cannot be included in the default set of repositories. Amongst the applications included in the channel are  Skype, Adobe Reader and Fluendo MP3 playback.

Adobe Flash Player 11 for Ubuntu

Prior to the recent release of Adobe Flash 11, Ubuntu 64bit users were provided with a 32bit version of Flash in a ‘plugin wrapper’ (in order to allow it to work on 64bit machines). With native 64bit support in Flash 11 this is no longer required, and one of the ‘big drawbacks’ often cited by users cautious about moving to Ubuntu 64bit has now been eased.

Adobe Flash 11 can be installed from the Ubuntu Partner Repository in the Ubuntu Software Centre in Ubuntu 11.10.

Thanks to Corey

 

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  • Jordan Ketterer

    will it be just an update or do i have to install it separatly

  • Anonymous

    i can’t find it anywhere in natty software center nor by apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

    • http://www.fightbait.com John-Paul Natysin

      I can’t seem to find it either.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t think that you’re suppose to, I think it’s first gonna be available in 11.10

      “Adobe Flash 11 can be installed from the Ubuntu Partner Repository in the Ubuntu Software Centre in Ubuntu 11.10.”

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GE4EYP3QOQ246PLG2Y2DOD2NIQ Dr. Fly

        Just checked…it’s still not there.

        • http://ghetto.k2city.eu Matej Moško

          It is already there. However it says in synaptic, it is version11, however in comment there is stated it is version 10 and the same on the http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
          WHere is the truth?

          • http://ghetto.k2city.eu Matej Moško

            my fault, generic chrome flash plugin was in use

    • Anonymous

      Go here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ and select 64bit Ubuntu, and click on the download button, it opens up the software center.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GE4EYP3QOQ246PLG2Y2DOD2NIQ Dr. Fly

        I can verify this works.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_POBOXJ4AGBFJ5P2OE2R4AOPLQ4 Don

    It’s about time.

  • http://twitter.com/ylynfatt Yannick

    This is good news.

  • Mathias Schwartz Kirkegaard

    I can’t find it either

  • Anonymous

    The package is adobe-flashplugin and not the one I had (flashplugin-installer). It is available from the Canonical partner repository.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TOAP2YXEUL6HBNSCRICYVVMKSY Teg

    There are also versions for 10.04 (Lucid) in both 32 bit and 64 bit. If you run the update manager in Lucid, you will get 64-bit but here are direct links for reference:

    32:  http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flash-properties-gtk_11.0.1.152-0lucid1_i386.deb

    64: http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flash-properties-gtk_11.0.1.152-0lucid1_amd64.deb

  • Ziv Leyes

    you don’t need it if you’re using chrome browser

    • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

      flash isn’t included in google chrome 64bit for ubuntu/debian.
      or at least when i installed it since 10.10, there isn’t built in flash for it

      • Ziv Leyes

        I don’t know what version of Google Chrome you’re using, I installed it from the google official repo (needs to be enabled before) and never had to install any additional plugins for flash.

        I’m on 11.04, but I believe it’s not exactly related to the Ubuntu version as it’s something that is supposedly built inside the browser engine
        The following article was published on June 25th 2010:
        http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/25/google-chrome-flash/

        • http://twitter.com/tancrackers John C

          I downloaded chrome from google.com. It’s simply not built in O_o
          On windows though, it’s built in for me.
          Im also on ubuntu 11.04

    • http://hector-macias.blogspot.com Hector Macias Ayala

      Thankfully Im not.

  • http://twitter.com/MarcCoquand Marc Coquand

    And There was Much Rejoicing

  • http://twitter.com/highvoltage Jonathan Carter

    “Adobe Flash 11 Made Available in Ubuntu” – Is that a troll title or was it accidental? :)

    It should probably say “for Ubuntu” since the Canonical Partner repository isn’t part of Ubuntu.

    • Anonymous

      “Adobe Flash 11 Made Available in Ubuntu” – Is that a troll title or was it accidental? :)
      —
      Hmm, sounds a little like a troll reply to me… Does it matter that much how the title is laid out?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Newton/512458865 Jeremy Newton

      “in” makes more sense because it’s a part of Ubuntu’s partner repo rather than “for” which is more generalized (which would be wrong because it’s been available for ubuntu for a while)

  • Paulo Dias

    if you want to keep your flash player settings in systemsettings (kubuntu/kde) install the adobe-flash-properties-kde too…

  • Jud Johnson

    Just installed it under 10.04 64bit.  Just search for Flash.  Does anyone know if they fixed the system freeze problem?

    • Anonymous

      I don’t have any system freeze problems with oneiric anymore. That was a total mess with natty. Deep freezes with certain videos and resolutions.

  • Mohan

    This is awesome news to me!

  • Ano Otaku

    Loving this release of flash no white screen when running multiple videos and no lock ups on the system.

    For those trying to figure out their version go to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
    and look for the version information.
    Out of topic question, is there a way to trim down the amount of ram usage on compiz as it is taking up a considerable amount of ram of my machine and im hardly using it.

    • http://www.corbindavenport.com/ Corbin Davenport

      That’s probably Unity making Compiz go crazy. Unity is mostly just a Compiz plugin.

      • Ano Otaku

        Ty for the reply.  Hopefully they will have this sorted soon….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5KG7JAE7WPBQI2PCQL4HYPAKPI Bassboy Anon

    I doesn’t work! It crashes all the time when I am watching videos from a non-youtube website! :s

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Newton/512458865 Jeremy Newton

      No issue on arch, it maybe a Ubuntu issue, I guess?

      • http://mark-y-a.myopenid.com/ Marky

        Working fine on  11.04 Natty x64 11.0.1.152. Woot! :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YI6YF5MODP2ZBSHKHC6PJ4GQJM DexterP17

    Why is flash not working on my 11.10? I did a fresh install and installed Ubuntu Restricted Extras also, and flash still doesn’t work.

  • http://www.corbindavenport.com/ Corbin Davenport

    I removed flashplugin-installer and installed adobe-flashplugin, but it’s not working. I opened Firefox and the plugin did not appear. I went to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ and it said this:

    Missing FLASH?

    For your safety, Firefox has disabled your outdated version of Flash. Please upgrade to the latest version.

    Any ideas?

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I32UYQJ2ZBOZ37UCAQPB56OVCE Luigi

      install the addon ‘Flash-Aid’ in Firefox…

      then, click on it’s icon and select which version you want: stable or beta.

      • http://www.corbindavenport.com/ Corbin Davenport

        Never mind. It appears that the old package has been updated for Flash 11.

  • http://twitter.com/Popenke Lucas Popenke Paes

    And about the Skype 64 bits? When I use the Skype from the partner repo the theme used by the app is Qt, not Gtk

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I32UYQJ2ZBOZ37UCAQPB56OVCE Luigi

      also, it’s not 64bit (in 11.10 repos)

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Newton/512458865 Jeremy Newton

      What does skype have to do with flash? Skype is 32 bit only and runs in qt not in flash? The skype people haven’t ported it to 64bit or GTK.

  • Anonymous

    I am wondering when games will have HW acceleration in Flash…. According to top in Terminal, the flash plugin is using 120% CPU when playing Flash games on Facebook f. ex… I can feel the machine gets quite hot as well… Totally annoying in 2011 Adobe!!!

  • Fatriff

    I’ve had to install both 10 and 11 and turn one off depending on what site I’m using as a few sites have detection scripts which only check upto version 10.. So when I’m using 11 I get an error saying, you need flash player 10 or above to use this site or application or whatever I’m trying to use.

    Just a message to anybody out there, get your scripts updated!

  • Anonymous

    It’s still not enough. On my 64-bit HTPC with Ion chipset every video is working with 1080p except for Flash videos.
    I’ve waited for so many years to get 64-bit support but it’s still far from good enough.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t it time to change the default setting on ubuntu.com for downloading Ubuntu to 64-bit instead of 32-bit?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremy-Newton/512458865 Jeremy Newton

      Not yet, still some issues. Even beyond that, 32 works on both types of systems, while 64 only works on x86-64 computers. They probably won’t change it until 32 bit system is completely or even mostly phased out.

      • http://www.twitter.com/PabloMDiez Pablo Martín Diez

        +1 on this.

        They stopped supporting i586 within 10.10.
        The latest i586 processor I worked with was a 1998 AMD K6-2.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HZILZGJ4PKNN67IK7JYXIKHLSM DjznBR

    Wasn’t Flash suppose to die after the advent of VP8 and HTML5 ?

  • Anonymous

    This is information is incorrect. If you enable canonical partner repositories the Ubuntu software center shows Adobe Flash for i386 architecture which is 32 bit and not 64 bit. It reports the version as version 11 in the description but the title says Adobe flash 10 which is probably another bug in software centre. 

    To actually obtain Adobe flash 64 bit version 11 for Ubuntu 11.10 go to this link and download the deb manually : http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/ [third link from bottom]

 
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