Archive for the ‘Firefox’ Category

Updated version of the flash64.sh script for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

A few months ago I released a script to install a 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin to a 64-bit Firefox, but it doesn’t seem to work in Gutsy beta. Here’s an updated one. I upgraded my laptop to Gutsy and used this one to get Flash working.

Edit: I did a complete reinstall later and learned that Gutsy knows how to set this up by itself. So there’s no need for this script anymore. And that is a very positive thing!

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Installing the 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin on a 64-bit Firefox in Feisty

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Here’s a little script I made to make installing the 32-bit Flash plugin on a 64-bit Firefox easy. It was adapted from a script I found at the Ubuntu forums (here), but since that did not work right out of the box for me, I created one that does. The script uses the nspluginwrapper tool by Gwenolé Beauchesne.

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