Call me Googley-challenged...whatever. I struggle with finding answers on the Internet. So, if you are like me, maybe this will help you in your quest to get flash working on a 64-bit Linux operating system. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). I set this up for the Linux version of Google Chrome.
1. The first thing to do is download the flash plugin from the Adobe website: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
2. Extract the file (wherever you want) on your file system. It should be the flash plugin named something like libflashplayer.so.
3. You will need to create a plugins directory in the chrome install location:
Go to google chrome folder: cd /opt/google/chrome/
Create the plugins directory: sudo mkdir plugins
4. Lastly, copy the libflashplayer.so file to the newly created plugins directory.
Open up Chrome and navigate to Youtube or some other flash based website. You should have video. These are the steps that I took to install flash. Feel free to read Adobe's documentation and disclaimer information as this is not yet a supported plugin.
As a side note, to get this working in Firefox, you only need to copy the libflashplayer.so file into the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory. I have flash now running in Firefox and Chrome.
Hope this helps. I just want you to know...we're all counting on you.
