DOWNLOAD ADOBE PEPPER FLASH PLAYER HOW TO

The package ‘ pepperflashplugin-nonfree‘ automates the entire process: it downloads Google Chrome for you, extracts the PPAPI plugin, and moves it to where it needs to go. You just need to copy the relevant plugin file over.

DOWNLOAD ADOBE PEPPER FLASH PLAYER HOW TO

How to Install Pepper Flash in Ubuntu 14.04 LTSĪs mentioned above, the newer, safer Pepper Flash is available in Google Chrome, so it will work in Chromium. The good news is that if you want to use Flash in Chromium you still can - it just takes one package from the Ubuntu Software Centre. While Google continues to maintain and distribute a modern version Adobe Flash for Linux as a ‘Pepper Plugin’ it is only available as part of Google Chrome, the branded version of Chromium with some extra bells and whistles on. We’ll skip repeating ourselves to say: as inconvenient as it is, it’s long overdue.īut there is one drawback: the regular version of Adobe Flash for Linux available in the Ubuntu Software Centre does not work in Chromium. There are a number of reasons why they’re dropping support for the archaic plugin framework, most of which we’ve covered before. If you’ve installed Chromium on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but are having trouble getting Flash content to play, this guide is for you.Įarlier this year Google retired support for the Netscape Plugin API (more commonly known as ‘NPAPI’) from the Chromium codebase, and plan to do the same on Windows and Mac in the very near future. Install Flash in a flash using the software center

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