Trusty: chrome and flash won't work for me

[NoOp]

On 08/20/2014 07:10 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I'm just moving up to Trusty xubuntu.  I've got a fresh install on my AMD
> 64-bit machine.  I've run into a snag with chromium, my favorite browser.
> When I go to http://bigfarm.goodgamestudios.com/?country=US and click to
> log in, I immediately get a window asking me to install a flash player.
> I'm unable to comply.
> 
> OTOH, firefox works okay.
> 
> I've tried updating flashplayer-installer to no avail; it seems to update
> but the behavior of chrome does not change.  Trying to download and install
> something manually just freezes as soon as I try to install.
> 
> I'm sure there's more details that might help, but I don't know which ones,
> and I'm hoping someone else has seen this and already knows how to fix it.

Chromium doesn't include a flash player plugin (Chrome does). So you
need to install
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/pepperflashplugin-nonfree
from multiverse.
$ apt-cache policy pepperflashplugin-nonfree
pepperflashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: 1.3ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.3ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.3ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree