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64-bit Flash Player 9 for Linux? Does it exist? No, it doesn’t but YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK. Yes, making it work on my Compaq Presario V2000 with an AMD Turion 64-bit processor running Linux was pretty easy. Here’s what I did (using Debian) …

1. Download the 32-bit Flash Player for Linux here - http://www.adobe.com/go/gntray_dl_getflashplayer
2. Extract its contents to /tmp
3. As root…
   1. cp /tmp/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
   2. cp /tmp/flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
   3. apt-get install nspluginwrapper
4. As non-root
   1. nspluginwrapper /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Note that you may need to replace /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins with whatever your browser’s plugin path is… usually it would be /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins or /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins

Don’t forget to restart your browser afterwards.  Get flash player to run on 64-bit Linux ain’t that impossible after all!

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