Chrome Linux - The Flash Plugin Is Out Of Date

Hi

I am using Zorin OS 64bit (Ubuntu derivative) with Chrome Browser 11.0.696.43 beta and I cannot use Flash other than temporarily because it is being blocked as out of date.

I downloaded another Adobe Flash 64bit plugin and extracted it (libflashplayer.so) , However I simply do not know how to update/overwrite the existing plugin. I don't know the commands, and even if I did I would struggle to do it.

Anybody game for a bit of handholding so I can get it sorted?

Thanks

Terry

 

Chrome is supposed to come with flash. What kind of error message are you receiving exactly?

 

The 64-bit version of Chrome doesn't come with Flash.

To the OP: on Ubuntu, copying the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins has worked well for me.

 

Hi Thanks Eice

You are quite right the 64bit is a special beta download that will have to be manually updated according to the Adobe site.

I may have got it sorted, in a sense somewhat the opposite way round to what you did. I read that chrome shares the Mozilla plugin. When I checked aboutlugins in chrome it was indeed showing the Mozilla plugin.

I uninstalled the old Chrome plugin which then was removed from the Chrome aboutlugins. That done it appears that the block was removed from me installing the new version which is named somewhat differently to the Mozilla version.

The new version is now showing in aboutlugins and Flash is working again

Thanks

Terry

 

Not necessary here. On Ubuntu Maverick, I have the 64bit version of Chrome 12 installed from https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/ archive/dev/ packages, and flash worked out of the box. In my /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder there is flashplugin-alternative.so which is a link to /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so.

I'm not using the 64bit version from https://launchpad.net/~sevenmachines/ archive/flash as it seems to be behind securitywise.

BTW: This feature - mentioned in another thread here - is really nice.

 

The OP is using Chrome, not Chromium. Apparently he didn't install flashplugin-installer under the assumption that Chrome came with its own Flash, which isn't true for the 64-bit package.