I just updated to Ubuntu 16.04 and now my adobe flash plugin for my Chromium browser doesn't work. Any advice? I've tried downloading Pepper Flash, but that doesn't work.
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Despite what was said on Ubuntu wiki and here to simply install flash on Chromium by pepperflashplugin-nonfree
package; I was forced to manually copy the pepperflash plugin file from Google chrome to chromium in the way expounded here :
Download Google Chrome and extract
libpepflashplayer.so
from/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash
in the Chrome deb file Copylibpepflashplayer.so
to/usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins
Make the necessary changes to the Chromium startupsudo gedit /etc/chromium-browser/default
Add this to the
CHROMIUM_FLAGS
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=11.5.31.2"
You can get the correct version of the flash plugin from the
"version":
json tag in themainfest.json
from/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash
in the Chrome deb file
Now I have Adobe Flash Player - Version: 16.0.0.291 on Chromium and it works fine. I don't know if I could get updates for flash on Chromium using this on Trminal:
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status
Because it doesn't give anything on Terminal.
If you have any idea of how to keep the flash player updated on Chromium (without manually copying .so
file eachtime a new version is released);
Also about the reason of pepperflashplugin-nonfree
didn't copy the plugin file in Chromium folder or didn't update CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
in /etc/chromium-browser/default
automtically, please let me know in comments.
Thanks
Pepper Flash Player is built-in with Google Chrome web browser, so it doesn't need to be installed separately. Google Chrome can play flash videos without installing any other software. Pepper Flash Player is not built-in with Chromium web browser, so it must be installed separately. Pepper Flash Player in Chromium is the same as the built-in flash player that Google Chrome uses.
To install Pepper Flash Player for Chromium in Ubuntu 12.04, open the terminal and type:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:skunk/pepper-flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pepflashplugin-installer
In order to configure Chromium to use Pepper Flash Player, open /etc/chromium-browser/default
from the terminal in nano text editor using the command sudo nano /etc/chromium-browser/default
and add the following line to the end of the file on a new line:
. /usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer/pepflashplayer.sh
Press the keyboard combination Ctrl+O and after that press Enter to save the file being edited. Press the keyboard combination Ctrl+X to exit nano.
Restart Chromium, and load the chrome://plugins
page to verify that the plugin is active.
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my guess: copy and see your plugins using chrome://plugins (not sure if it's chromium instead of chrome) if you find two adobe flash plugins disable one of them. If you didn't find any download the package from adobe (.deb for ubuntu) and then install it.