Adobe Flash 10 64 bit on Ubuntu 8.04 Working

If you are reading this, you are most probably trying to get flash 10 working on your 64 bit Ubuntu System. I followed a bunch of tutorials, downloaded a bunch of .sh scripts that claim to be working and do the installation automatically. This specific script:

#!/bin/bash
# Script created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com

echo "Stopping any Firefox that might be running"
sudo killall -9 firefox

echo "Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:"
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper


echo "Installing Flash Player 10"
cd ~
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

echo "Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it."
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

# now doing some cleaning up:
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -rf libflashplayer-10.0.d20.7.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

claims just that. But it does not work. Here is the original post. I have an edubuntu server 64 bit and I was trying to get it to work for a while but this script only downloads the plugin.

To get it to work after you run it, you need to open a terminal window and type firefox. When Firefox loads, you will see some errors like

failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

Run the following

sudo apt-get install libnss3-0d libnss3-1d libnspr4-0d
sudo killall -9 firefox

After you start firefox again everything should be ok.