64-bit Flash Plugin on Fedora-13 running Firefox 4

Firefox 4 is around the corner, those who are running Fedora-13 and want to try out the latest 64-bit flash plugin. These are the instructions

1. Go to our mozilla plugins directory

[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ pwd
/home/nareshv/.mozilla/plugins

2. Download the latest flash plugin from the following url http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html and follow these steps

Latest download link is here.

[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ wget 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz'
--2010-09-25 19:16:17--  http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
Resolving download.macromedia.com... 69.192.35.191
Connecting to download.macromedia.com|69.192.35.191|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4308402 (4.1M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: “flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz”

100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 4,308,402    506K/s   in 13s     

2010-09-25 19:16:31 (332 KB/s) - “flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz” saved [4308402/4308402]

[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ tar zxf flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz 
[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ ls
flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz  libflashplayer.so  libflashplayer.so.old
[nareshv@fallenangel plugins]$ ls -l libflashplayer.so
-rw-rw-r--. 1 envy envy 10601968 Sep  4 04:47 libflashplayer.so

3. open http://www.youtube.com and see the flash player in action



4. Have fun with the new flash player.