35

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to install the adobe flashplayer for Chromium in Ubuntu 16.04.

Thanks

muru
  • 193,181
  • 53
  • 473
  • 722
Elysium
  • 10,912
  • 24
  • 56
  • 81
  • 2
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash – Panther Apr 30 '16 at 15:49
  • @bodhi.zazen it doesnt work. I can enable the canonical partners but the adobe-flashplugin is still missing from the software center. – Elysium Apr 30 '16 at 15:56
  • you need to tell us more then "it doesn't work" post the error message you are getting when installing. – Panther Apr 30 '16 at 16:09
  • 1
    @muru although I prefer peperflash and chromium, my understanding is pepperflash is now depreciated. See the wiki page I linked. – Panther Apr 30 '16 at 16:10
  • @bodhi.zazen hmm. Perhaps you can post an answer in the other post describing the change? Since no versions are mentioned, I'm guessing it's also applicable for other releases. – muru Apr 30 '16 at 16:13
  • @muru - The op states it is not working, waiting on additional information. – Panther Apr 30 '16 at 23:00
  • I don't get it to install on 16.04 either: `E: Package 'adobe-flashplugin' has no installation candidate`. Again, this is on Xenial (16.04). – bovender May 06 '16 at 20:01
  • This question is not a duplicate! – birgersp Aug 15 '16 at 15:55
  • 1
    I'm voting to reopen this question because the installation process of PPAPI Flash became much easier since Adobe started to release it for Linux and Canonical packaged it in `adobe-flashplayer`. – David Foerster Nov 11 '16 at 09:02

3 Answers3

42

Be sure to enable the Canonical partners repository then run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin
David Foerster
  • 35,754
  • 55
  • 92
  • 145
Ryan Doherty
  • 1,029
  • 9
  • 13
  • There is no 'Canonical partners' repo on 16.04 (fresh install). – bovender May 06 '16 at 20:02
  • 4
    For now (October 2016, Ubuntu 16.04) I added canonical partner, installed adobe-flashplugin but I go in some pages who need flash, e.g. pond5.com (to edit a clip) and I see "Get the Flash Player to see this clip..." so it doesn't work I mean Chromium doesn't seem to have it, even if I just installed it. I restarted computer and browser, still same text telling to get flash player... any ideas? – firepol Oct 20 '16 at 20:06
  • @firepol: Works for me: https://i.imgur.com/RPjQsN4.png – David Foerster Nov 11 '16 at 09:10
  • Thanks so much, after a long journey I ended up here. Kubuntu had given me the flashplugin-installer instead, which does not work. – udippel Dec 08 '16 at 15:31
  • 1
    Additionally, I had to go to `chrome://plugins` and check `always allow execution` for the Adobe Flash Player plugin, otherwise some website would consider it is not installed. – Metaxal Dec 21 '16 at 08:08
  • 7
    chrome://plugins gives "This site can’t be reached" error. – liang Apr 29 '17 at 06:02
  • i'm sorry , i know here is not the good place for asking this question , but what does the canonical partners repository's work ? – Mohsen_Fatemi May 31 '17 at 11:24
1
sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin

works for chromium and firefox

D-unit
  • 319
  • 1
  • 15
  • 1
    Can you confirm that you're on 16.04? – bovender May 06 '16 at 20:02
  • It does in fact not work at the moment. Installing 3rd party applications in 16.04 is broken at the moment. This is a bug that should be fixed in the coming days. A bad alternative is to install chrome, it includes flash – D-unit May 06 '16 at 20:06
0

I stopped using Chromium, but I was using Pepper Flash for a while back then. It's deprecated now, adobe-flashplugin should be enough

Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash

See also for detailled installation instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Partner-Flash

Fluffy
  • 231
  • 2
  • 11