HOWTO: Install Adobe Flash 10.1 beta

[WattoDaToydarian]

The Adobe Flash player 10.1 beta was released.

First download the tarball from here.

Next close Firefox and uninstall your current flash player by removing "flashplugin-installer" ("sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer")

Then extract the tarball to an empty location. Either right click and choose "Extract Here" or use "tar xzf flashplayer10_1*" in your terminal.
For 32bit systems you should be able to run "flashplayer-installer" by doing "./flashplayer-installer" in your terminal.
For 64bit systems it is a little more tricky. You have to use a terminal, cd to the folder where the new flash player is extracted, and run these commands:

sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

To remove it on 64bit systems run these commands:

sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
sudo rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
sudo rm /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

If you don't know what 64bit systems are then don't use the commands above...

Here is a link to the release notes.

Finally open Firefox, click Tools, choose Add-ons, click the plugins tab, and look for Shockwave Flash 10.1.
Once you see that you may enjoy your YouTube videos!

[firewrks]

This worked with an Nvidia 9600GT with Flash 10.1 beta 2 with some additional work. (note: amd64 arch) It required Nvidia 195 drivers.

1) deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
2) sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-195-modaliases nvidia-glx-195