64bit Linux, Flash, oh yeah.

One of the main falling points in running a nice smooth 64bit (aka x86_64 or amd64) Ubuntu installation is the support for Adobe's flash player. Now until HTML5 (link to chrome experiments here) comes fully into fruition Flash is the go to.

Now to get 64bit flash working you can either install the 32 bit version with a wrapper package to make it properly work. Though from my experience it does not quite work right, leaving important functionality wonky or broken. The other method is to manually install Adobe's alpha version (for over a year now! common!) of the 64bit flash player, whether through a script or adding to the appropriate folders yourself.

Bah you say, too much work, Flash should be out of the box. Well fortunately I came across a nifty post (at OMGUbuntu) that there is a PPA for a 64bit flash installer. So if you want to quickly get flash working without dealing with the small nuiances of proprietary packages then this is for you!

Enjoy. I sure will.

https://launchpad.net/~sevenmachines/+archive/flash