No pepperflash for chromium?

[eddieg538]

Here is what's happening on pepperflash update...

pepflashplugin-installer: downloading
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 239, in process_download_requests
dest_file = urllib.urlretrieve(files[i])[0]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 94, in urlretrieve
return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 240, in retrieve
fp = self.open(url, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 208, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 463, in open_file
return self.open_local_file(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 477, in open_local_file
raise IOError(e.errno, e.strerror, e.filename)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ''

Anybody know what's wrong?

[life0riley]

The pepperflashplugin-nonfree is deprecated.

See Getting-Flash below and follow the url to Chromium/Getting-Partner-Flash
Getting-Flash

[eddieg538]

So since Google stopped support for Chrome 32bit which is where pepperflash came from we have to go back to using the way outdated adobe flash 11.2?

[life0riley]

So since Google stopped support for Chrome 32bit which is where pepperflash came from we have to go back to using the way outdated adobe flash 11.2?

No. This is the latest from from the Canonical Partners software source.

I followed the directions here:
Getting-Partner-Flash

In muon:
Settings --> Configure Software Sources
Click the Other Software tab and check Canonical Partners.
Then click close.
The two packages you want to install for Kubuntu are adobe-flashplugin and adobe-flash-properties-kde.

I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) with Chromium version 49.0.2623.87.
The Adobe Flash Player version is 21.0.0.182.

[Rufus]

Thank you, life0riley. I had been running with 11.2 for a while now, which realy does not work on all flash sites.

[eddieg538]

Well after doing this my version of flash is Version: 11.2.999.999. So it does seem we now have to use the old flash on a 32bit system. Your version 21.0.0.182 is pepperflash not adobe.

[life0riley]

Did you configure your software sources and add Canonical Partners?
After adding Canonical Partners did you install adobe-flashplugin and adobe-flash-properties-kde?

My Kubuntu 14.04 (LTS) is 32 bit:

life0riley@kubuntu1404:~$ uname -m
i686
life0riley@kubuntu1404:~$

I have done this on three systems and have used Synaptic Package Manager, Muon, and the terminal. All have worked.

Here is the output from the terminal on Kubuntu 14.04 (LTS): (Note flashplugin-installer will be removed)

life0riley@kubuntu1404:~$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin adobe-flash-properties-kde
[sudo] password for life0riley: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libkutils4
Suggested packages:
  x-ttcidfont-conf msttcorefonts ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu
  ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  flashplugin-installer
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  adobe-flash-properties-kde adobe-flashplugin libkutils4
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9,774 kB of archives.
After this operation, 33.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y

I disabled flash in Firefox. HTML5 works fine in Firefox. I use Chromium if I want to view flash videos.

Here is a screen shot from Chromium after I finished:

It looks like Adobe Flash Player to me.

[eddieg538]

Yes, I added Canonical Partners. It did exactly as you said, removed flashplugin-installer. Installed libkutils4 and now chromium says flash is 11.2.999.999. I had 21.0.0.197 before this which was pepperflash. I'm thinking since google no longer supports chrome 32bit the flash for it can not be updated. This is why I stopped using firefox because of the old flash not working on some sites. do you still have pepperflash installed, maybe?

[eddieg538]

OK, I think I see what's happening. In a website I right click a flash game it reports version 21.0.0.182 which works fine. So it's not really 11.2.999.999. I don't really care as long as it works. Thank you.

[life0riley]

I never had pepperflash installed. I stopped using flash mostly when Firefox started disabling it be default. HTML5 is fine on YouTube, but a lot of websites still use flash. I tried to install pepperflash a few months ago and discovered it was deprecated.

I use Firefox most of the time and Chromium only when I need flash.

[vinnywright]

Humm ,,,flash seams to work fine for me in firefox ,,,,and in the odd case it dose not I just use google-chrome,,,,,

VINNY

[eddieg538]

Google chrome is no longer available for a 32bit linux os. So I switched to Chromium but now the pepperflash will not update because there's no chrome 32bit to get it from.

[vinnywright]

Google chrome is no longer available for a 32bit linux os. So I switched to Chromium but now the pepperflash will not update because there's no chrome 32bit to get it from.

O,,,,,,,is that not a 64bit processor ,,,,,, what little googling I did leads me to think so.

VINNY

[eddieg538]

I have 2 Dell systems. One is an E1505 with the Centrino processor 32bit running Kubuntu 14.04 which is the one I was having a flash problem with. Then I have the E1705 which is 64bit that I just did an upgrade to Kubuntu 16.04 developmental that I really like so far. However, the upgrade did stop responding at 99% where it was suppose to ask me if I wanted to keep or install a new config file. I know this because I had to restart and run sudo dpkg --configure -a to get the upgrade to finish and it asked me if I wanted to keep a configuration file or install a new one immediately. I took the default (no) but it changed it anyway.