pepperflash chromium plugin doesn't work
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have chromium-browser and pepperflashplug
The plugin seems to be installed correctly, the chrome://plugins page says:
Adobe Flash Player - Version: 11.2.999.999
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r999
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: pepperflashplug
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Nov 27 11:07:00 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-07 (995 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
SourcePackage: pepperflashplug
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-09-29 (59 days ago)
Changed in pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
pepperflashplug in-nonfree is well-known to be broken since Google stopped shipping the PPAPI Flash plugin with Chrome 54: see e.g. bug 1632870. The package has not been fixed yet. Besides, if it worked, it would install PPAPI Flash version 23.0, not the NPAPI Flash version 11.2 that is inexplicably detected by chrome://plugins in your case (I thought Chromium only supported PPAPI plugins?).
If you want an up-to-date version of pepperflashplug in-nonfree specifically, try the one in Jonathon Fernyhough's PPA, it's fixed (https:/ /launchpad. net/~jonathonf/ +archive/ ubuntu/ pepperflashplug in-nonfree).
The recommended way to install the NPAPI and PPAPI Flash plugins is through the adobe-flashplugin package though, which is in Canonical's Partner repository (https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Chromium/ Getting- Flash). Enable this repository, remove ALL other Flash-providing packages (pepflashplugin -nonfree, flashplugin- installer, pepperflashplug in-nonfree. ..), and install adobe-flashplugin.