I’ve finally made the jump and using the AMD64 version of Ubuntu as my primary installation.\u00a0 There are a couple of tricky things to deal with, primarily with closed sourced applications such as Adobe Flash Plugin and Skype which are two applications I need to use.<\/p>\n
A lot of the tutorials\/guides online will tell you to use nspluginwrapper or similar.\u00a0 Adobe has released an ‘alpha’ version of their 64 bit player which is pretty stable so far…<\/p>\n
Download it from :-http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/downloads\/flashplayer10.html<\/a><\/p>\n Unpack the archive and copy the only file to the Firefox plugins folder in ‘\/usr\/lib\/firefox-addons\/plugins<\/em>‘ :-<\/p>\n sudo cp libflashplayer.so \/usr\/lib\/firefox-addons\/plugins<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You would think you could just go to www.skype.com and ask for a download and it’ll be like the Adobe site detecting that you have a 64 bit system right?\u00a0 Wrong (at time of writing).\u00a0 Annoyingly that’ll just let you download an i386 package!<\/p>\n You could manually remedy this by downloading the AMD64 .deb package from :- So far the respositories have been kind to me… but i’ll update if I run into any other troubles \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Voila happy 64 bit Ubuntu’ing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve finally made the jump and using the AMD64 version of Ubuntu as my primary installation.\u00a0 There are a couple of tricky things to deal with, primarily with closed sourced applications such as Adobe Flash Plugin and Skype which are two applications I need to use. How to install Adobe Flash Plugin 64 Bit for … Continue reading “Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope AMD64 (64 bit)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,16],"tags":[15,32,8,21,14],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-software-problems-help","category-software-tips-tricks","tag-firefox","tag-flash","tag-free-software","tag-free-software-tips","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to install Skype 64 bit for Ubuntu 9.04<\/h2>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.skype.com\/go\/getskype-linux-ubuntu-amd64<\/a><\/p>\nEverything else?<\/h2>\n