Flash installer for ubuntu 11.10 64-bit installs wrong flash plugin

[Tony]

When attempting to play pandora.com using the software center install of adobe-flash, it installs flashplugin-alternative.so.

Using the plugin with Firefox causes the brower to freeze and give a blank pop-up dialog with option of ok or cancel (Which does not work) the close button is the only one that works. Sometimes when it freezes, I have to kill the firefox process to get the browser to close.

I went to Adobes site and download the 64-bit (other) version. The one selected was the .tar.gz version.

I then used the software center to remove the version installed from software center. I then had to go to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory, and used sudo rm flashplugin-alternative.so.

I then manually moved the working version which is libflashplayer.so to the plugins directoy. It now works great.

Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

[Tony (tonyr2k8)]

The ubuntu version I'm running 64-bit