Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Installing Adobe Flash Player 10 on Ubuntu Hardy

Due to the previously mentioned 2 GB limit with flash player 9, I attempted to upgrade Hardy with Adobe provided player 10 deb.

sudo apt-get install remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree libflashsupport
dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb

But it did not work. After all the googling fun, this link was helpful. Briefly this is the key:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d /usr/lib/libssl3.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d /usr/lib/libnss3.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d /usr/lib/libnspr4.so

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.1d /usr/lib/libsmime3.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d /usr/lib/libplds4.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d /usr/lib/libplc4.so

Yeah, it worked, for me at least.

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