Pepper flash. Chromium reports incorrect plugin version

[tomsam2]

Hi,

today (Wed, Sep 10, 2014), I installed a clean chromium, started it, and
was wondering at first, why the pepperflash plugin had not been installed.

So, I did

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install
sudo /usr/sbin/update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status

which results in

Flash Player version installed on this system : 15.0.0.152
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 15.0.0.152

However, chrome://version (see below) and also chrome://plugins state
that the installed flash plugin version is 11.2.999.999

So I had a look at /etc/chromium-browser/default which contains

-------------------
# part for pepperflashplugin-nonfree : begin

flashso="/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so"

if [ -f $flashso ]
then
flashversion=`strings $flashso|grep ^LNX|sed -e "s/^LNX //"|sed -e "s/,/./g"`
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --ppapi-flash-path=$flashso --ppapi-flash-version=$flashversion"
fi


# part for pepperflashplugin-nonfree : end
-------------------

On the command line:

$ flashso="/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so"
$ strings $flashso | grep ^LNX

does not result in any output.

If I just search for LNX , however, I get the following output:

$ strings $flashso | grep LNX
[@LNX 15,0,0,152

So it seems, the way the script is trying to retrieve the current version is
incorrect !

$ strings $flashso | grep LNX | sed -e 's/.*LNX //'

might work for now, so a line

flashversion=`strings $flashso|grep LNX|sed -e "s/.*LNX //"|sed -e "s/,/./g"`


in the chromium default file . Better solutions are welcome.


I report this here, since dpkg says, this is an ubuntu package

$ dpkg -l | grep pepper
ii pepperflashplugin-nonfree 1.3ubuntu1 amd64 Pepper Flash Player - browser plugin

If this is not the correct place, please let me know, where I have to
address this issue.

Thanks
tomsam

----chrome://version---------------------------
Chromium 37.0.2062.94 (Developer Build 290621) Ubuntu 14.04
OS Linux
Blink 537.36 (@180557)
JavaScript V8 3.27.34.14
Flash 11.2.999.999
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/37.0.2062.94 Chrome/37.0.2062.94 Safari/537.36
Command Line /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version --enable-pinch --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
Profile Path /home/tomsam/.config/chromium/Default
Variations 24dca50e-455c9cca
ca65a9fe-91ac3782
246fb659-5c63917a
f296190c-2502111b
4442aae2-a90023b1
ed1d377-e1cc0f14
75f0f0a0-a5822863
e2b18481-3a9ae350
e7e71889-e1cc0f14


---chrome://plugins----
Adobe Flash Player - Version: 11.2.999.999
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r999
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r999
Version: 11.2.999.999
Location: /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so