Discussion between Matthew Presser and devGeek - 2014-10-20

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Q: Adobe Flash Player installed but not detected by Chrome

I realize there are a wealth of question on Adobe Flash in Chrome on Ubuntu, but I can not find an answer to this on Google or the StackExchange network. I have for months now experienced the "choppy video" symptoms in all flash video in my stable release of Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. When I go...

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Well, for chrome to work flash you can try, there is an alternate called pepperflashplugin-nonfree. You can install it from your Ubuntu Software Center. It works like a breeze.

Matthew Presser

I'm not seeing it. How can I find it?

@MatthewPresser Well, in your Launcher, on the left, orange bag with 'A' on it, that's your Ubuntu Software Center.

@DanJohansen No, definitely not as pepper is a cross-platform API that Adobe Flash Player uses to run its plug-in in Chrome

Matthew Presser

I'm in the software center, I have multiverse enabled, but searching for "pepper" does not give me the plugin in my search results. sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree also does not work.

@MatthewPresser You just might need to update your repository. Type in sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade. And, then retry installing it.

Matthew Presser

6:35 PM

@devGeek Nope, still not there. Is there any way to manually install it from a .deb or tarball?

@MatthewPresser Please edit your question with the outcomes of the commands sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree

@MatthewPresser Well, this will help you with all that stuff wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash

Matthew Presser

@devGeek I have edited my question with the information you requested. Even after following the instructions in your most recent comment, nothing has changed. (I already had multiverse repositories enabled before I asked this question.)

I changed the server to "Main Server", ran sudo apt-get update, and still no changes. The package pepperflashplugin-nonfree is still not found, and despite having pepflashplugin-installer installed, the command update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree does not appear to be anywhere on my system. Furthermore, I had to change my server in the Synaptic manager--the location you told me to change it did not exist under my System section. Are you sure you're looking at 12.04 (the version I'm using)?

@MatthewPresser Well, for system settings, you must go through this

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Q: System-Settings option is missing

I no longer get the system-settings option on my ubuntu 12.04. I have earlier used it several times without any problem. I am not aware which action could have caused this problem but I don't remember uninstalling or deleting any package recently.

12.04 system-settings

Matthew Presser

System Settings is not missing.

The Software and Updates option under the System section in the System Settings is not there.

you still have your libflashplayer.so file with you ?

Matthew Presser

6:42 PM

Which one? The one from /usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer?

the one you wanted to put in /opt/google/chrome

Matthew Presser

There was the one from Adobe's .deb file.

I tried putting that into the folder /opt/google/chrome, but Chrome did not see it.

I also tried Adobe's advice of putting it in a new folder, /opt/google/chrome/plugins, but that also did not get seen by Chrome after a restart.

is your system updated /

?

Matthew Presser

Define "updated"

I regularly install updates for all my packages, if that's what you mean.

But I'm running 12.04.

well have you tried the command mentioned in one of my post as
`sudo apt-get update` followed by `sudo apt-get upgrade`

Matthew Presser

6:49 PM

Yes, I've done everything you've told me to.

okay.

have you read this ubuntuguide.net/…

Matthew Presser

No. I will try that right now.

I completed those instructions, but chrome://plugins STILL does not see any plugin EXCEPT the default.

How do you get Chrome to see the new plugin?

I don't understand.

does the installation process gives error ?

Matthew Presser

I wouldn't really call what was in that latest link you posted an "installation process", but no.

I successfully made the soft link.

Mozilla Firefox sees it when I go to about:plugins, but Chrome still does not.

hmm.....so the problem is that chrome doesnot recogonize it

Matthew Presser

7:02 PM

I've been pretty sure for a while that that was the problem.

Shouldn't it automatically be searching /usr/lib?

i think it doesn't recognize until it gets updated. Try updating chrome

Matthew Presser

Okay, I'll try.

Any idea on how to forcibly update Chrome? Should I just re-install?

try, sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

don't get confused by the followed by in between

Matthew Presser

When I do that, it just tells me it's already installed.

I'll just remove it and re-install it.

hmm try it

Matthew Presser

7:12 PM

Nope

Maybe I need to purge it.

But still, this is ridiculous.

Are you sure you're using 12.04, too?

have you gone through this

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Q: Chromium 34 and later cannot detect flash plugin

I've deleted ~/.macromedia and ~/.adobe contents and after a restart chromium can't detect flash plugin. It works just fine in Firefox I have only Chromoting Viewer on chrome://plugins/ chromium-browser 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.350-0trusty1 I have profile-sync-daemon a...

flash chromium adobe

see the accepted answer with ubuntu 12.04 (precise) and later section

Matthew Presser

I'm not using Chromium, I'm using Chrome.

But for what it's worth, yes, I did that.

Here's something interesting.

I went to /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash and executed mv libpepflashplayer.so libpepflashplayer.so.orig

The chrome://plugins page still SEES the plugin there, but when I go to a site using flash, I get a notification that Shockwave has crashed.

So this is clearly a problem with Chrome not updating its plugins list.

advice:
well, not really a solution but why not try chromium instead

Matthew Presser

Because then I won't have seamless synchronization between my laptop and my phone.

Furthermore, I'm trying to watch Netflix.

That ONLY works in Chrome on Ubuntu.

not sure about netflix. but sync is no problem

Matthew Presser

7:22 PM

This works for a ton of people. Why not me?

happens, we've tried many possible solutions out there

meanwhile i'll keep looking for it

Matthew Presser

7:53 PM

Do you have any idea how Google figures out where the plugins are?

Matthew Presser

8:03 PM

I tried moving my configuration folder so that Chrome would be forced to start with a fresh default profile. That did not cause it to see any of the plugin changes.

Matthew Presser

8:47 PM

I think the problem might be the HTML5 video player. I'm going to investigate.

Forcing flash did not help.

Matthew Presser

9:57 PM

I found the answer. Enabling hardware acceleration fixed it.

I had to tweak the startup flags for Chrome, but it worked.

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