Flash player on Chromium browser

[zakarysisler]

So, how do I get the latest flash player on my Chromium Browser so I can watch YouTube videos?

[UltimateCat]

Hi:

Welcome to Ubuntu !

Start by opening up the Software Center and than follow these instructions

Than use the terminal to do the rest to get flash player installed:

http://thegeekin.com/install-flash-p...romium-ubuntu/

[Not Defined]

Chromium is open source and sometimes can be a little buggy, for the official release of Google Chrome you could go to https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ and download and run the .deb file for either 32 bit or 64 bit, depending on your installation. These official releases already include most of the codecs used for online media such as YouTube.

[Paqman]

The other thing you could do is install Chrome instead of Chromium. Chrome has a Flash player built in. You'll have to get it from Google.

[c2tarun]

or you can download flashplayer zip from adobe site, extract it and paste it to /home/user/.config/.chromium/plugins

[mastablasta]

or you can open software center and install restricted extras package. that will install various codecs, flash and such.

[c2tarun]

or you can open software center and install restricted extras package. that will install various codecs, flash and such.

Just to tell you the ubuntu-manual link in your signature is awesome

[Warren Hill]

I would suggest Chrome rather than Chromium as Adobe no-longer support Flash on Linux. Chrome has a later flash player built in.
instructions here
http://www.noobslab.com/2012/10/inst...in-ubuntu.html

[noersetiawan]

Or you can just watch youtube in HTML5 instead of using flash, HTML5 is the near future of the web.

[mikechant]

I would suggest Chrome rather than Chromium as Adobe no-longer support Flash on Linux.

No, that's not true.

See this link: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashpla...s/roadmap.html

And note this bit: "Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release."

V11.2 was released about a year ago, so flashplayer will be supported for another four years on Linux.
You won't get new releases, 11.3 and above, so no new features, but you will have a secure (well, as secure as flashplayer gets) version for a long time. When 11.2 end of support *does* finally approach, it will be a lot clearer as to whether flashplayer is at all relevant any more.