To fix this I entered “about:plugins” in the address bar, and clicked “disable” against Flash. This results in Google Chrome falling back on the version of Flash installed in the operating system. If you do not have Flash installed, then in Debian you can install as follows:

Firstly ensure that the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list include “non-free”, for example:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free

Then install Adobe Flash with:

$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

And you should now have a working Flash installation. I have tested You Tube and all seems to be well, but I will update this page if I find any issues.

By the way, I would obviously prefer to run Chromium, the open source version of Chrome, but at the moment the version in Squeeze is outdated, and there are no backports yet for Wheezy.

$ sudo aptitude install icedtea-gcjwebplugin

And it transpires that Adobe has launched an Alpha or pre-release version of Flash, and supposedly it works well. To install simply visit:

• Adobe Labs: FlashPlayer 10 for 64-bit Linux

And download and extract the tar.gz file, then simply copy the libflashplayer.so file into .mozilla/plugins in your home directory (I had to create that directory).

YouTube (which I always consider to be a good test of both Java and Flash) worked perfectly.

So far 64-bit Linux has been remarkably painfree.