Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skunk/pepper-flash Nowadays *buntu users can install flash in Chromium from a ppa:
These days, with the Linux version of Pepper now being freely available for download, it's an easy enough matter to manually swap the libpepflashplayer.so module yourself.the Linux download is not an installer, like the Windows version is.Įdited by Mike_Walsh, 16 October 2016 - 06:19 PM. In the past, the way to do this was to download Chrome, strip out PepperFlash, then discard the rest.Ubuntu, especially, for long enough had an 'in-house' script that did just this via Synaptic. This shouldn't make any difference to those of you who prefer to run Chromium instead. I'm posting with this information because there is absolutely no mention of the new change on the Chrome-stable release blog.so I just wanted to let everybody know about it, so as to save lots of head-scratching! I've always hated all the 'faffing about' that Flash entails for me, the day when the web finally goes all-HTML5 can't come soon enough.but unfortunately, it's a necessary evil to be endured for the foreseeable future, since too many websites still require it.
and if the currently available version is newer than your installed version, simply go to the afore-mentioned page within Chrome itself, and update it from there. This is a distinct advantage, actually, since Adobe often release new versions of Flash before the next release of Chrome-stable is due.so now all you need to do is check the Adobe Flash version page:. Instead of the PepperFlash module ( libpepflashplayer.so) residing in its own sub-directory within the /opt/google/chrome directory, it appears that it now lives, and runs from, within the Chrome binary itself. Click on 'Check for update', and Chrome will fetch, and install Pepper for you. If you look where my cursor is pointing, at first view this will read Version '0.0.0.0', and 'Status' will read 'New, as Pepper is not at this point installed. If you go into 'chrome://components', you'll see a list as in the image below:.
Instead, you have to perform a download/update from within the browser itself. From version 54 on, Chrome will no longer ship with Pepper pre-installed. The new release marks a change of direction for the Linux version of Chrome, through reading ahead on the 'beta' and 'dev' channel blogs. I discovered this when I was re-packaging the new release into the SFS format that Puppy uses.Īs you all know, the easiest way to obtain PepperFlash, since it was first released nearly 8 yrs ago, has always been to install Chrome, as it comes with Pepper pre-installed. Just thought I'd inform everybody who uses Chrome in Linux about a change in Google's packaging policy.
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