Today, Ubuntu announced the first Intrepid Ibex beta. I gave my Linux workstation an upgrade immediately to give it a try. A few days ago, I had manually installed Flash Player 10 using nspluginwrapper, and wrote a guide about it. I received a suggestion that you can also use an Intrepid Ibex package to install Flash Player 10 on Hardy Heron, which is a great suggestion and a lot easier than my method.

Now I have Intrepid Ibex, and that package is available, installing Flash Player 10 on 64-bit Ubuntu is a snap:

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Yup, that’s it. Reload Firefox and you’re done! I must say though, it seems a little less stable than it was in Hardy Heron, but then Intrepid Ibex is still in beta.

Edit: A quick test suggests that Minefield is a bit speedier using Flash Player 10