Howto enable flash support for chromium browser
We have already dicussed howto install chromium browser in ubuntu .This tutorial will explain howto enable flash support for chromium browser
First you need to make sure you have installed chromium browser
Now you need to install flash using the following command
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Now you need to copy libflashplayer.so file into /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins directory
sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins
Now you can run the chromium browser using the following command from terminal
chromium-browser
--
enable-plugins
or
Go to Applications->Internet->Chromium Browser and right click it, add to panel.Right click the new chromium icon and add the following command where it says command
chromium-browser
--
enable-plugins
That's it from now on you should able to view youtube or any other flash video.
I get
E: Couldn’t find package adobe-flashplugin
🙁
You don’t need to copy anything over. I didn’t. I just installed the flashplugin, and ran the command chromium-browser
--
enable-plugins, and it automatically detected the plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.Same as above. “E:Couldn’t find package adobe-flashplugin”
Any ideas what the problem might be?
I’m on Ubuntu x64 by the way
I figured it out. I’m also using 64bit ubuntu. I have a working version of the flash plugin for Firefox. Instead of typing ‘chromium-browser’ into the terminal, I typed ‘google-chrome –enable-plugins’ and it worked.
You may want to add this to your post.
Thanks
@Honza: Chromium is not the same thing as Google Chrome, you must have Google Chrome installed, not Chromium…
P.s.: for 64bit Ubuntu, download the 32 bit Flash archive from adobe.com and extract it to /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins folder (Chromium is a 32-bit application, so you have to have the 32-bit version of libflash player to link or copy)
it’s not google chromium, but google chrome is made from the source of chromium.
“Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome.”
(http://code.google.com/chromium/)
“‘Chromium’ vs ‘Google Chrome’
Chromium is an open source browser project. Google Chrome is a browser from Google, based on the Chromium project.”
this will show if you write ‘about:linux-splash’ in the url-bar in chromium
over and out
When I try do display a flash video, it crashes reporting this on the console:
[31623:31623:24921623919:ERROR:/build/buildd/chromium-browser-4.0.202.0~svn20090813r23308/build-tree/src/chrome/browser/autocomplete/autocomplete_popup_view_gtk.cc(319)] Not implemented reached in virtual void AutocompletePopupViewGtk::OnHoverEnabledOrDisabled(bool)
[31623:31623:24922397746:ERROR:/build/buildd/chromium-browser-4.0.202.0~svn20090813r23308/build-tree/src/chrome/browser/autocomplete/autocomplete_popup_view_gtk.cc(319)] Not implemented reached in virtual void AutocompletePopupViewGtk::OnHoverEnabledOrDisabled(bool)
[31623:31626:24925889128:ERROR:/build/buildd/chromium-browser-4.0.202.0~svn20090813r23308/build-tree/src/base/native_library_linux.cc(19)] dlopen failed when trying to open /home/topoignaz/.mozilla/plugins/.DS_Store: /home/topoignaz/.mozilla/plugins/.DS_Store: invalid ELF header
Error: Couldn’t find per display information
[31623:31623:24926447080:ERROR:/build/buildd/chromium-browser-4.0.202.0~svn20090813r23308/build-tree/src/chrome/browser/tab_contents/tab_contents.cc(1601)] Not implemented reached in virtual void TabContents::OnCrashedPlugin(const FilePath&) convert plugin path to plugin name
Moreover, if I start Chromium with the –enable-plugins option, Google Mail does not work properly anymore.
Great tips, a few notes:
1/ You can always download the latest flash player at http://www.adobe.com.
2/ Just get the “tar.gz” file and unpack it to libflashplayer.so.
3/ Copy this libflashplayer.so into ~/.mozilla/plugins/ folder.
PS: If you are on 64 bit system, you may have had the same plugin in the same folder, in that case you want to name your new file as libflashplayer_32.so. Chromium Browser does not support 64 bit flash plugin and it will use the other version instead.
Cheers,
libflashplayer_32.so worked
I use the Chromium Browser and every time I start the browser, I get the tab with my home page up (which I want only) and the about:linux-splash tab (which I don’t want).
Can the about:linux-splash tab be removed and if so, how?
Thanks.
I have flash running in Firefox and I recently downloaded Chromium. Followed all the instructions above and…nothing. When I go to Youtube, I still get: Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe’s Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player. If I download the new flash player, I’m told I have the latest one already installed…
I installed the latest ubuntu build of chromium-browser and i only copied the flash plugin and it works like charm without –enable-plgins.
@mehdi: with the latest builds, there’s no need to specify the
--
enable-plugins option anymore.Thank you! It’s nice that you share useful information! I still could to install chromium browser!
Great tnx! I from Russia, but it was very easy to install flash player with your instruction!
it worked for me.. thanks a lot..
Thank?, is just that i needed!!
It worked. Just the first step of installing flash and voila. No copying required. 😀
Thanks for the tip.
In my case on Debian, the plugin was installed in /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree diretory instead of /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer.
It worked at the moment, thank a lot.. 🙂
Hey Guys, I get the following error after doing everything correctly, like described above:
chromium-browser –enable-plugins
[6576:6576:5382521023:ERROR:webkit/glue/plugins/webplugin_delegate_impl_gtk.cc(134)] Not implemented reached in bool WebPluginDelegateImpl::WindowedCreatePlugin() windowed plugin but without xembed. See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38229
[6576:6576:5382932016:ERROR:webkit/glue/plugins/webplugin_delegate_impl_gtk.cc(134)] Not implemented reached in bool WebPluginDelegateImpl::WindowedCreatePlugin() windowed plugin but without xembed. See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38229
[6580:6580:5389254246:ERROR:base/native_library_linux.cc(32)] dlopen failed when trying to open libGLESv2.so.2: libGLESv2.so.2: Kann die Shared-Object-Datei nicht öffnen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
The last sentence means “File or Folder not found”
Hope you can help me.
Greetz 🙂
Thank you it worked fine for me
i tried it but its throwing this error i am new to ubuntu need tyour help
sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins
just go to ubuntu software center in applications and click get sofware then in the search bar type flash and download the one for mozilla firefox it will automatically work for chromium and there is no crap to deal with trying to use the terminal.
it literally takes less than 30 seconds that way
Thank you very much. It works in Chromium for Quimo!
Thanks alot!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Yeeesh!! Thanks a ton!!
Two years later and this post still has the solution. Thank you very much.