I finally can see flash on my Ubuntu AMD64!

I run across the NSpluginwrapper: A cross-architecture browser plugin tool article today, downloaded NSpluginwrapper and followed the instructions on the Ubuntu forums:

1. Download the Plugin and the Viewer
2. Install alien and linux32, if not already installed.
3. Convert the downloaded rpm's to deb's
   $ sudo alien -d *.rpm
4. Install the newly created debs:
   $ sudo dpkg -i nspluginwrapper-i386_0.9.90-2_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i nspluginwrapper_0.9.90-2_amd64.deb
5. Download the plugin you want to install, and extract the .so file. For example, to install flash, grab the tar.gz file from Macromedia's website, and extract libflashplayer.so.
6. Move the plugin (libflashplayer.so) to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. This is where nspluginwrapper stores the main plugin, so it's probably a nice folder to keep them.
7. Now we need nsplugwrapper to make the new plugin, so call:
   $ sudo /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/npconfig -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
   It will either end up in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Copy the generated plugin to the main plugins folder:
   $ sudo cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/

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