Comments on: Enable flash and use themes in Google Chrome Linux

By: Mohamed Amir

Mohamed Amir — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:11:01 +0000

It just works !!
THANK YOU

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:11:47 +0000

Worked for me also, however a few slight differences.
1. I had to use the command “locate -i” which is a case-insensitive locate command to find any files.
2. Instead of finding a variety of files as in the example I found only one which was:
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
I followed the rest of the instructions using this file instead of the one listed in the example and it appears to work fine as well. If I have any problems I will return to post.

By: ray

ray — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:24:52 +0000

thanks it works, flash is so difficult in Linux

By: Phani

Phani — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:32:57 +0000

google-chrome –enable-plugins
/usr/bin/google-chrome: /lib64/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/google-chrome)
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: /lib64/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /opt/google/chrome/chrome)
[5085:5085:4476571780:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official-linux-64/build/src/net/proxy/proxy_config_service_linux.cc(227)] Error requesting gconf directory: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details – 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

This the error message that i’m getting Please help me i am using Fedora 11 as my OS

By: JuL

JuL — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:07:53 +0000

I’m trying to copy the 64bit version of libflashplayer.so into /opt/google/chrome/plugins/libflashplayer.so but I get a “permission denied” error, what should I do ?

By: Tanager

Tanager — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:02:30 +0000

Yes, thank you – that was my problem. Needed that sudo command!

By: Al

Al — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:02:07 +0000

Dude You are awesome!

Not only did you get my chrome flash going….but my firefox flash too!!!!

Sweet!

By: Krellan

Krellan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:13:42 +0000

Great advice. However, one change to make: For 64-bit Google Chrome, running on Linux, the default libflashplayer.so download won’t do. It’s only 32-bit. You have to go to a special download page on Adobe, to get the 64-bit download:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html

This download contains a fresh new 64-bit libflashplayer.so, that you can drop right into the /opt/google/chrome/plugins directory, that you created earlier.

Works great!

By: Hikari

Hikari — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:23:42 +0000

A more efficient version:

# locate libflashplayer.so

/usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/browser-plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

# ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/ /opt/google/chrome/plugins

# chrome/google-chrome -–enable-plugins

voila! this has the advantage to keep all of your libraries updated with all of your browsers, saves space, reduce complexity and you get all of the Mozilla plugins installed in the system and not just the flash plugin. I now have vlc, pdf and others enabled btw :) tho, I still have to test them but flash works.

Cheers!

By: PabloniusMonk

PabloniusMonk — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:52:04 +0000

Many thanks for the post. Using your instructions, (and a wee bit of tweeking) I was able to get flash in Google Chrome working on my Dell Ubuntu.

By: Ilídio Martins

Ilídio Martins — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:05:48 +0000

I used the Opera Flash pluggin…

I copied the following lib:
/usr/lib/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so

cp /usr/lib/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/

That worked for me!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Thanks so much! Finally I got flash working in Chrome Linux. I symlinked libflashplayer.so and it didn’t work, by copying it, it seems to work 100% and seems ultra stable. Thanks again!

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First problems « — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:01:20 +0000

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By: Pablo P

Pablo P — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:02:55 +0000

Thanks for the article!

Minor typo that might get beginners wrong: “–enable-plugins” rather than “–enable-plugins”, notice the double dash.

By: Enable flash and use themes in Google Chrome Linux | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:19:07 +0000

[...] Although themes are not crucial to using Chrome, flash is. Without getting flash working, you won’t be able to do things like view youtube videos. By the end of this article you will be running Google Chrome with flash support enabled and using the available themes. More here [...]

By: David Legg

David Legg — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:11:02 +0000

Good article. You might want to put an ‘sudo’ at the front of the line:

cp /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/

Either that or tell users to login as root to do it first. Cheers.