install flash player 10 into centos 5.x 64 bits +

My preferred OS is CentOS 5 64 bits. I do all my development work and testing on my 3 Dell servers, at home. However, being an online shopping addict and passionate motorcycle rider, it happens for me to use Firefox and browse the Internet for something to rant about… beside coding. The problem is that most sites like YouTube etc. need the Flash Player for their site software. Adobe decided not to release a x64 Linux version of their most recent player, so the .i386 RPM will not work with Firefox x64, unless you use my trick.

The fix is easier then you think. Everything I’ve posted below was tested on a CentOS 5.2 x64 Gnome environment. Let’s fix that Flash Player to run on 64 bits, shall we?

1. Start by installing those libraries (.i386 and .x86_64):
# yum install curl compat-libstdc++-33 glibc nspluginwrapper

2. Once done with the kitchen work, it is time to install the Flash Player RPM.
# rpm -ivh /tmp/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm

3. Close all Firefox windows and open a new one. In the address bar, type:
about:plugins

You should see there the Flash Player and NPAPI wrapper. Now, go watch some movies on YouTube. Was that hard? There you have it, Flash Player with Firefox x64.
If you find this post useful, please link it into your blog. Have fun on the Net.

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21 Responses to “install flash player 10 into centos 5.x 64 bits”

  1. flatbass | December 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 am +

    I don’t know what’s wrong with flashplayer. Tried many things but nothing works. Can’t even find it in about:plugins. I’m running CentOS 5.2. It all worked fine until I ran some updates (can’t say what updates it were). Since then I always get the message in firefox to install flash (or a newer version)

  2. Victoria | January 2nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm +

    I tried installing flash player, but i get this:

    error: Failed dependencies:
    glibc >= 2.4 is needed by flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386

    how can i fix it?

  3. Floren | January 14th, 2009 at 6:37 pm +

    Try:
    # yum list glibc*

    and see what packages you have installed.

  4. chad | January 31st, 2009 at 12:28 am +

    Thank you so much, I have been trying to get flash running on my 64bit box for 3 hours now and this worked perfectly!

  5. Jason | March 1st, 2009 at 10:27 pm +

    Brilliant, worked like a charm, thanks alot

  6. MohanJos | April 23rd, 2009 at 8:39 am +

    Thank you sooooo much. It is fantastic!! I tried a lot with flash player installation in my CentOS-5 box!! At last a real helping HAND done the job for me. Wow!!!

  7. Balan Mahadevan | May 9th, 2009 at 5:15 pm +

    Thanks for your great help. I made a link from my blog to your site.

    Cheers,
    b.m

  8. Arun.P | June 4th, 2009 at 10:40 pm +

    Hello,

    I was in back of this for the last 2 day.. almost fedup with googleing.. Finally I found this post.. Thanks again.. Please keep posting like this for beginners like me its very very helpful.

  9. Justin Klein Keane | July 8th, 2009 at 8:12 am +

    You rock! Thanks so much for posting this. I’ve been struggling to get Flash working on my CentOS 5.3 x64 system for days now. I finally got fed up with the rapid release cycle of most Linux distros and switched to an “enterprise” distro to cut down on headaches. Unfortunately now I’m finding that many of the headaches are still there – they’re just in different packages. Trying to get stuff like the latest Firefox and Flash working seems reasonable for an enterprise OS. I want to have some of the newer consumer software without having to upgrade my kernel and drivers constantly. Thanks for your post – it saved me tons of time!

  10. mherrera | September 27th, 2009 at 7:47 pm +

    Thank a lot, I tried to install it for 2 days.

  11. xhuli | November 7th, 2009 at 3:15 pm +

    Works like charm, thank you!

  12. Farshid | December 2nd, 2009 at 12:48 am +

    Thank you. It worked for me. I was looking for this for some time.
    Do the good work. Best wishes.

  13. Craig | December 31st, 2009 at 10:43 am +

    I’ve been fighting this one for a couple days after some Centos 5.4 (I’m using the x86_64 version) updates. I did what you said and it worked!! I’m using the i386 version of Firefox (3.0.16). I’m leaving well enough alone. Thanks for your help on this!!

  14. tnt2br | January 20th, 2010 at 9:36 am +

    Tks ! You help me!

    this tutorial work nice !

    Tks good work man !

  15. R. | February 3rd, 2010 at 11:04 am +

    thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

  16. newCentosUser | February 18th, 2010 at 10:50 am +

    Thanks so much…!!

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  18. andrew | July 27th, 2010 at 7:46 pm +

    I’ve seen so many ways of installing flash that didnt work, this is by far the simplest and it worked perfectly.

  19. Anthony Labrador | September 26th, 2010 at 11:47 pm +

    [root@mail ~]# yum list glibc*
    Setting up repositories
    Reading repository metadata in from local files
    Installed Packages
    glibc.i686 2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.3 installed
    glibc-common.i386 2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.3 installed
    glibc-devel.i386 2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.3 installed
    glibc-headers.i386 2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.3 installed
    glibc-kernheaders.i386 2.4-9.1.103.EL installed
    Available Packages
    glibc.i386 2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.3 update
    glibc-profile.i386 2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.3 update
    glibc-utils.i386 2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.3 update

    how to install this?
    but I try to install one of the dependencies.

    [root@mail ~]# yum install glibc-2.3.4-2.43.e14_8.3.i386
    Setting up Install Process
    Setting up repositories
    Reading repository metadata in from local files
    Parsing package install arguments
    No Match for argument: glibc-2.3.4-2.43.e14_8.3.i386
    Nothing to do

    Pls. help how to?

  20. Floren | September 27th, 2010 at 11:17 am +

    # yum install glibc.i386

  21. ourrad | March 22nd, 2011 at 8:45 am +

    thanks this work fine

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