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flashplugin-installer 28.0.0.126 does not work with Chromium but works with Firefox

Asked by SunBear

$ dpkg -l | grep flashplugin
ii flashplugin-installer 28.0.0.126ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

I have the latest flashplugin installed as shown above.
However it only works with Firefox but not with Chromium.
I want to use it with Chromium.
How do I fix this?

This failure occurred after the latest flashplugin was updated. The earlier version of flashplugin was working with Chromium.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'

Thanks

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SunBear (sunbear-c22) said : 		#2

$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
Linux Eliot 4.10.0-42-generic #46~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 4 15:57:59 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii flashplugin-installer 28.0.0.126ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get clean

Enable the partner repository and then install the adobe-flashplugin package

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SunBear (sunbear-c22) said : 		#4

Done actionparsnip instruction but still have the same issue.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

1. Read https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/net-install-flash.html

2. What is now the output of
dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'

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SunBear (sunbear-c22) said : 		#6

$ dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'
ii flashplugin-installer 28.0.0.126ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#7

You did not follow actionparsnip's advice.

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SunBear (sunbear-c22) said : 		#8

I was confused by the section on "browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash".

It said: "Some features of the PPAPI plug-in, such as 3D acceleration and premium video DRM, are not available in the NPAPI plugin. If you use Firefox or some other Gecko-based browser and need those features, you can install the browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash package. It's a wrapper which makes Firefox use the PPAPI plug-in."

I has having issue using flash in Chromium but not in Firefox, hence did not consider using "Pepperflash".

In any case, I totally removed "flashplugin-installer" and installed "browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash" in its place.
sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash

To check, I did as you previously asked:
$ dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'
ii adobe-flash-properties-gtk 1:20171212.1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 GTK+ control panel for Adobe Flash Player plugin
ii adobe-flashplugin 1:20171212.1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64 Adobe Flash Player plugin
ii browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash 0.3.6-1~webupd8~xenial6 amd64 PPAPI-host NPAPI-plugin adapter for pepperflash

Pepperflash worked.

@actionparsnip had recommend to install the "adobe-flashplugin" package. However, Software Centre does not have "adobe-flashplugin" package to install. Pepperflash was the only alternative I had not tried, and after trying, it solved my problem.