One of the first few things to do after installing Ubuntu 14.04 is to install Adobe Flash Player. Normally, if you install Ubuntu Restricted Extras, Flash Player should be working and you should be able to watch online videos from websites like You Tube etc.
But this is not the case with Chromium and Ubuntu 14.04 combination. While you can easily play You Tube videos etc on other web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome etc, in Chromium you will see Adobe Flash player missing notice:
Adobe Flash Player is required to display some elements on this page. Install plug-in..
Reason for flash player issue exclusively in Chromium:
The reason why this issue occurs only in Chromium is that until now Chromium used Netscape Plugin API for Flash support. Starting from Ubuntu 14.04, Chromium will stop using Netscape Plugin API. Hence, you will face issues with Adobe Flash Player with Chromium.
Now, why this issue doesn’t occur with other web browsers? Answer is because they use Flash version 11.2.
Fix Adobe Flash Player issue with Chromium:
To fix this issue, we’ll be using Pepper Flash Player, a safer and more stable version of Flash Player from Google. An Adobe Flash Player Pepper installer is available in Ubuntu 14.04 repositories. This installer downloads Google Chrome, extracts Pepper Flash Player and sets it up for Chromium usage.
To install Pepper Flash Player in Ubuntu 14.04, open a terminal and use the following commands:
sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --installRestarting Chromium will do. No need of a system reboot. I hope this quick post helped you to fix Adobe Flash Player issue with Chromium. Any questions or suggestions are always welcomed. Ciao :)
Thanks for this. Worked perfectly.
after entering this command: sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree –install
ERROR: failed to retrieve status information from google : W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/InRelease
W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to dl.google.com:80 (2404:6800:4003:c00::5b). – connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2404:6800:4003:c00::5b 80]
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
More information might be available at:
http://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer
Hi Abhishek,
I followed your steps for pepperflash.
It’s not working when I try running the LIVE news player on RT.
here – https://www.rt.com/on-air/
Can you help?
sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
[sudo] password for jembot:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package pepperflashplugin-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘pepperflashplugin-nonfree’ has no installation candidate
how to fix this
What’s the last few lines of sudo apt-get update ?
This 3 line last of apt-get update
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en
Reading package lists… Done
Thanks a lot, You have fixed
Welcome Amit
If your browser crashes with chromium and pepper, disable flash plugin. If you done that check your repo for: adobe-flashplugin and remove it. I think it conflicts. Anyhow it fixed crashes on all my systems. Remove firefox and all its dependecies including flash also from there because its all outdated
Fixed crashes in youtube and can play latest games in facebook after all those changes applied. good luck!!!
Thanks alot. looking for this fix form last oneday..but this is the best solution for this issue.
Welcome Venkatesh.
There’s such thing as Firefox.
Of course. But you should know that Firefox doesn’t have the latest flash player. It stuck with version 11.
It’s not their fault.
Merci, bonne manip !
De rien Andre.
Thank you so much it worked like a charm after many researches on how to fix the problem.
Welcome Soukaina
Thanks for this post, actually It worked well with me, but I have another problem, the OS freezes after while of opening anything working with flash or even HTML5, you can find description of the problem here, do you have any solution for this ?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/553353/youtube-freeze-chromium-38-0-2125-111-ubuntu-14-04-1
i have pepper installed, and it’s crashing every time i try to play youtube videos, on the first seconds
Same here! I also expirienced a problem with VLC-plug in which seems that is not working. I tried soo many times and soo many things, but flash never worked correctly. Even installed Chromixium to see if there is a difference, but the damn flash player crashed all the time (on fcb videos, not on ytb videos). Linux programmers should find a global solution of this problem! I love linux, but it’s soo buggy somethimes and I spend hours/days to find solutions of some problems like flash player (non of suggested solutions worked for me). Ubuntu was perfect before, but now is more useless than ever.
mine cant install
libpepflashplayer.so failed
help would be apprectiable
Congratulations and thanks!!!!! :) :)
Welcome Leno.
Thank you for this post. It works well with Chromium and Ubuntu 14.10 for me.
Welcome Tom
Thanks! It worked like a charm!
Спасибо, помогло, сохранил себе http://prostolinux.ru/help/cromium-plagin-ne-podderzhivaetsya/#ixzz3HjiuSujI
I am getting an error when installing
ERROR: failed to retrieve status information from google : W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/InRelease
W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release.gpg Could not resolve ‘dl.google.com’
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
More information might be available at:
http://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer
What can I do with continous Xorg crashes after pepper freeze? After some page opened with Chrome, screen goes blank and that’s all. The same thing happens in Xubuntu 14.04, Xubuntu 14.10, elementary Freya. .xsession-errors.old:
** (zeitgeist-datahub:2006): WARNING **: zeitgeist-datahub.vala:229: Unable to get name “org.gnome.zeitgeist.datahub” on the bus!
[1816:1860:1011/120528:ERROR:channel.cc(316)] RawChannel read error (connection broken)
[1816:1896:1011/120543:ERROR:get_updates_processor.cc(240)] PostClientToServerMessage() failed during GetUpdates
[WARNING:flash/platform/pepper/pep_module.cpp(63)] SANDBOXED
[1816:1860:1011/120943:ERROR:channel.cc(316)] RawChannel read error (connection broken)
[1816:1860:1011/121141:ERROR:channel.cc(316)] RawChannel read error (connection broken)
[1816:1855:1011/121246:ERROR:native_backend_gnome_x.cc(603)] Keyring find failed: No matching results
[1816:1855:1011/121246:ERROR:native_backend_gnome_x.cc(603)] Keyring find failed: No matching results
[1866:1872:1011/101522:ERROR:gpu_watchdog_thread.cc(253)] The GPU process hung. Terminating after 10000 ms.
[1816:1816:1011/121522:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(442)] Lost UI shared context.
[2196:2199:1011/121537:ERROR:gpu_watchdog_thread.cc(253)] The GPU process hung. Terminating after 10000 ms.
[1816:1816:1011/121537:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(418)] Failed to establish GPU channel.
getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) failed
getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) failed
getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) failed
getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) failed
Excellent. Work.
Thank you
This works well in both youtube & FB’s videos. Thanks man!
Welcome Daris
Facebook videos are laggy and unwatchable :( …can u suggest some solution to this? Thanks in advance.
Chrome :P
On serious note, I’ll look in to it as I use Chrome instead of Chromium.
After many frustrating processes, this worked like a charm on my Lubuntu LXDE—many thanks !
Welcome George
You have to add the right repo to do that install
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andykimpe/freshplayerplugin-daily
daily build… will it be stable, I doubt
Thanks. It’s partly working but very jerky visuals when in youtube, which sometimes stop while sound continues, and slow to respond to *stop*. Any clues why this would be?
Thank you very much, it worked for me.
Welcome Tin.
SUPER!!!!
Many Thanks!
Welcome Piter
thanks!!! this worked for me :) do you know how to fix pipelight in chromium ?
Do you use Chrome? With Pepper it runs Youtube Videos smoothly but facebook videos and let’s say… newgrounds videos are unwatchably laggy, they freeze my system. Do you know anything about that?
I do use Chrome but I did not experience same issue with Pepper.
Will this work for Firefox too? I’m wondering whether I should install only this or the adobe flash plugin for Firefox as well.
Firefox doesn’t have this issue. At least for now.
commented too soon it didnt work
ah.. too bad… still the same issue.. or something different?
finally this was killing me and really making me wanna go bk to windows
It worked ! Thanks a lot :-)
Welcome gacko
thanks!! it solved my problem.
Welcome
Perfect fix. Thanks very much!
welcome
Definitely worked! Appreciate it!
welcome
Thanks for the hint, Abhisek. You made my day!
you are welcome
Hi, thanks for this, youtube for example works perfectly but i still have an issue with a certain site, when i go fullscreen, chromium opens the video in an “unnamed window” so i have the title in the top of my screen and my panel at the bottom (i don’t call this fullscreen …) and i don’t have the “navigation slider” anymore, i have to use firefox to go to this site, and i go there every day …
Could you or anyone please help me … ?
Sorry, i forgot to tell that i use lxde, works fine on gnome but my laptop overheat with gnome …
Thanks
I think its website issue rather than Chromium. For overheating, you can install TLP. It works fine.
Perfect solution. Thanks.
I’m surprised nobody’s hacked the pepper plugin system into firefox yet.
Though, I’m guessing that would need a full on fork of the browser. Even though addons on FF traditionally get incredibly low level access to the browser.
It has already been :) Its available for Firefox now. Will write about it soon.
This doesn’t appear to work for Debian Wheezy. I got pepper into chromium on another sys a few days ago, though: I can’t seem to find that solution now. (The name for the plugin seemed to change often over the last year–foiling install.)
Pepper is a possible install in Firefox, after all? Great!: I like chromium for e-mail, Android, searching, and commercial-vendor purposes. Unfortunately, and quite naturally nowadays, clamav scans indicate that Google is attacked more frequently (seemingly the frequency increases daily): Iceweasel/Firefox isn’t completely immune, though. Always, I prefer the latter for banking and financial purposes.
This idiot 11.2 plugin problem appears to pop up all the time now–just in the last month. (The idiot sites won’t even attempt to execute–in any manner possible.)
OK–the ancient architecture proves problematic and buggy–getting past that should have proven moot long ago–it’s been two years or so. Why isn’t pepper simply put into nonfree–directly in place of 11.2? (I’m tired of the “shell game!”)
I hear about html5 a great deal–it’s way past time for universal adoption. (This reminds me of needing to fool with “quicktime” in the past with Windoze! Always, it was in the tasktray and enabled–the only other option was uninstall: People don’t like to be denied simple video content–due to the idiot obstinance of a proprietary software provider!) In like manner, quicktime seems to be used solely in Apple’s realm, nowadays. Likewise, adoption of 5 appears to be inevitable!
I desire for the native OS browsers in the open source distros I use to remain default As for latecomers to open source (Google, Amazon)–aways, as it seems with MS–success leads ultimately to undoing! Adobe seems pretty frayed, as well! Shockwave and Flash aren’t that great anymore!
I’m running clamav after a I finish with the plugin for chromium. Simple banking/vendor/forum surfing will zing with necessary cache and “infected site” .js or related deletions–via clamav: I’m close to virtual certainty of that–in an hour or so!
Thanks for this. Worked perfectly.
Welcome.
Great job, fixing an annoying problem.
Welcome :)
For me it didnt work ?! it says this –
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package pepperflashplugin-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘pepperflashplugin-nonfree’ has no installation candidate
Have you added “canonical partner” in software sources?
HTML5 Youtube player isn’t even mentioned here, just saying…
https://www.youtube.com/html5
Does this affect chrome? Because It gave me some issues with chorium, and now I have the same problem with chrome. Any way to un-do this to check if that was the problem?
No, it doesn’t affect Chrome. To un-do, remove the package.
Works well, wonderful, thanks a lot
Welcome
This didn’t work for me. Advice?
$ update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree –status
…
Flash Player version installed on this system : 13.0.0.206
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 12.0.0.77
but
in chrome, about:flash says:
About Flash
Chromium 34.0.1847.116 (Ubuntu 14.04 aura)
OS Linux
Flash plugin Not installed
— Crash data —
Crash Reporting Enable crash reporting to see crash IDs
For more details https://support.google.com/chrome/?p=ui_usagestat
— GPU information —
— GPU driver, more information —
This is interesting… As per “The IT Crowd”, did you try turning it off and on again?
I did. Restarted Chrome and Ubuntu. No joy.
Ah… well… some mysteries are never solved. Glad that its working now :)
Well after I had the exact same issue I found the cause: It’s the new “keep Chromium running” thing in the top right – simply exit chromium via this little symbol and restart it (or reboot your system)
what “keep Chromium running” thing?
thanks man….that worked!
Welcome :)
Spot on – worked for me ~ many thanks
Welcome Chris