Install Flash and Chromium on 64 bit amd64 debian or ubuntu

Since a month I’m using the 64bit (amd64) version of the Opensource browser Chromium ( in wich Google Chrome Browser is based ), it’s fast, very fast. Finally I have the impression I browse the internet in Linux at the same speed than I did on Windows. I simply can’t go back to Firefox.

In other hand on July 30th Adobe has released a 64 bits version of the Flash player, it includes a lot of performances  improvements to benefit from 64 bits linux OS.  I didn’t find a proper way to install it so I did a debian package.

Both packages are not stable 100% yet, but since one month I didn’t experience any crash.

Install 64 bits Adobe Flash debian package

I’ve made a package to include native 64 bits support on Ubuntu Jaunty and remove nspluginwrapper, this should work also on others debian based distributions.

To install it please  remove the 32 bits flash packages, this will remove 32 bit flash.

Open gnome terminal, ALT+F2, type gnome-terminal and on the terminal screen copy:

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper

Then download the package flashplugin64-nonfree-amd64-jaunty10.0.32.18.deb.

install it with gdebi or in the terminal :

sudo dpkg -i pathtodownloaddirectory/flashplugin64-nonfree-amd64-jaunty10.0.32.18.deb

Installing Chromium on 64 bit environment

1) Open again the terminal to add the chromium ubuntu jaunty repository, copy :

sudo echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list

2 ) authentify the repository :

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4E5E17B5

3) update apt

sudo apt-get update

4) install chromium

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

To launch it and get acces to the flash plugin execute it in this way :

chromium-browser --enable-plugins %U

Here a screenshot of Chromium with flash working on 64 bits environment.

Screenshot