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Since Adobe released a new version of its x64 bit flash player , I am going to install it replacing my existing 32 bit flash player.
First, download the file from this link http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html.
Now go to the download directory and right click on the file and select ‘Extract here’. Go into the folder to find the file ‘ libflashplayer.so’
Now , open a terminal, and navigate to the downloaded directory. For me it is Downloads. So , in the terminal type
$ cd ~/Downloads
now do a find command to see where the libflashplayer.so files are located in
$ sudo find / -name 'libflashplayer.so'.
I get the following output. The second one you will get only if you use linux mint.
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/opt/mint-flashplugin-x64/libflashplayer.so

Now, we need to back up the existing files and copy the new file in place. that is all.
~/Downloads $ sudo mv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so.bak
~/Downloads $ sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
~/Downloads $ sudo mv /opt/mint-flashplugin-x64/libflashplayer.so /opt/mint-flashplugin-x64/libflashplayer.so.bak
~/Downloads $ sudo cp libflashplayer.so /opt/mint-flashplugin-x64/libflashplayer.so

Now check if the files are copied fine. You will see there are two files. The one that you backed up and the other that you copied.

$ ls /opt/mint-flashplugin-x64/
libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so.bak

$ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
libflashplayer.so.bak
libflashplayer.so

Thats it. Now restart your browser and you will see the new flash player has been installed.