Ubuntu flash problem

[Kirby]

I'm just starting out in Ubuntu and I'm having problems installing the flash plugin for firefox. I downloaded the installer and ran it, but I get the following error message.

ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the
Adobe Flash Player installer.

Please tell me that there flash support for 64bit linux. If not, what should I do?

Also, do you have to add the programs to sources.list to use apt-get? I'm trying to play mp3s but I can't quite figure it out. So far I got:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight

but its says that couldn't find the package.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Shawn]

Pretty sure there isn't flash support for 64bit.

 

[Nothinman]

Please tell me that there flash support for 64bit linux. If not, what should I do?

Nope, go yell at Adobe. Hopefully one of these days one of the oss flash implementations will be usable but until then you're at their mercy.

This [1] might get you going with a 32-bit version of FF in order to use flash but I haven't tested it since I don't use Ubuntu and I have a full chroot setup for my 32-bit needs.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxAMD64FlashJava

 

[silverpig]

Go to the ubuntu forums and do some searching there.

"64 bit flash"
"amarok mp3"

That should do you. If you want to play mp3s, just

sudo apt-get install amarok

and that should be all you need.

sources.list is for repositories (servers with programs), not for the programs themselves.

 

[Nothinman]

I didn't even notice the mp3 part of that post...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

 

[Kirby]

Thanks alot guys. I got it all up and running. I had to install a 32bit firefox and go from there. Go figure. I also got Amarok playing mp3s and streaming from last.fm 🙂