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Recently I have upgrade my machine to a Phenom 9650 with 4GB RAM. So I decided to use install Kubuntu 64-bit. However, I had to install the 32-bit libraries and nspluginwrapper for Adobe Flash Player to work as it previously only 32-bit binaries was release. Now, Adobe has released an Alpha "refresh" version of native 64-bit Flash Player to enable pure 64-bit web surfing experience! To install, first uninstall currently installed flashplayer with the following commands: sudo apt-get purge flashplayer-nonfree nswrapperplugin Then download Flash Player 10 for Linux 64-bit from here . and extract libflashplayer.so to the following directories: ~/.mozilla/plugins/ /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ Restart firefox and go to your favourite flash site. For me, youtube.com and various flash site works well! The only problem is that konqueror doesn't seems to like it and does not display properly and it has been reported as bug 169626 .

If you are getting fustrated that you are still using Flash Player 7 in Linux and many sites are started to require minimum version 8 or 9, you can try using the Flash Player 9 beta. The following are the few simple steps I took to update mine: 1. Download the player from Adobe Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html 2. Extract the GZip file which will contain 2 files: readme.txt and libflashplayer.so 3. Following the instruction in readme.txt. For my SuSE 10.1, I just copy the libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins which of course requires root login. After that, most of the sites that require Flash Player 9 seems to work pretty well. UPDATE: Linux Flashplayer 9 is now release, go to http://www.adobe.com/go/gntray_dl_getflashplayer instead!