The Sevenmachines Adobe Flash Player 64bit PPA for Ubuntu has just been updated with the latest Adobe Flash Player "Square" 10.2.161.22 (64bit obviously) for Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10 so now it's even easier to install it!

Important: Adobe Flash Player "Square" is a development preview version! Use at your own risk.

If a while back Adobe wasn't very interested in its 64bit Linux users and discontinued Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for 64bit, the new Adobe Flash Player 10.2 codename "Square" developer preview released by Adobe today is also available for 64bit Linux systems (and obviously, 32bit too).

A new alpha version of Adobe Flash Player 10 for 64bit Linux is available for download. Before installing it, it is advisable to make a backup copy of the old Flash Player version:

sudo mv /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so.old

Then, to install the new version, extract the downloaded archive (download link at the end of the post), use the terminal to navigate to where you extracted it and run this command (this assumes you have a symbolic link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ for /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/ libflashplayer.so) :

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/

If you don't have a libflashplayer.so symbolic link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/, also run this command (thanks to JellyKernel):

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Download the new Alpha version of Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux 64bit | More info

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Some applications do not have a version for 64bit architecture, one of them being Skype. Still, Skype can be installed in Ubuntu Jaunty 64bit following 3 simple steps:


1. Download Skype

2. You need to install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs libqt4-core libqt4-gui

3. Now do a force install of the downloaded Skype package for Ubuntu:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture skype-debian_2.0.0.72-1_i386.deb 

The result: Skype now works on Ubuntu Jaunty 64bit.

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