Trusty: chrome and flash won't work for me

[Kevin O'Gorman]

That worked for me.  Thanks.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:09 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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Kevin O'Gorman

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