Ubuntu – flashplayer not working in Chromium

12.04chromiumflash

I am using Chromium Version 36.0.1985.125 on Ubuntu 12.04 . My flashplayer is working just fine in Firefox, but it is not working in chromium. I get the message "flashplayer upgrade required" when I try to play flash videos. Is there any solution to this?

I searched around this problem, and tried some solutions such as:

  • reinstalling flashplayer
  • updating packages
  • installing from software center
  • copying the flashplugin-alternative.so from firefox library to chromium library
  • installing pepperflashplugin-nonfree but got Package 'pepperflashplugin-nonfree' has no installation candidate
  • searching pepperflash in the software center and couldn't find it.

Here is the output of command dpkg -l \*flash\*:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                                Version                                             Description
+++-===================================================-===================================================-======================================================================================================================
un  adobe-flash-properties                              <none>                                              (no description available)
un  adobe-flash-properties-gtk                          <none>                                              (no description available)
un  adobe-flash-properties-kde                          <none>                                              (no description available)
un  adobe-flashplugin                                   <none>                                              (no description available)
un  flashplayer-mozilla                                 <none>                                              (no description available)
un  flashplugin                                         <none>                                              (no description available)
un  flashplugin-downloader                              <none>                                              (no description available)
ii  flashplugin-installer                               11.2.202.400ubuntu0.12.04.1                         Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
un  flashplugin-nonfree                                 <none>                                              (no description available)
un  libflashsupport                                     <none>                                              (no description available)

Does anybody know the answer to this question?

Best Answer

Your

installing pepperflashplugin-nonfree but got Package 'pepperflashplugin-nonfree' has no installation candidate

means you have some problems with repositories. This package is the only way to get flash in Chromium. Do it. Try changing repository mirrors.