[SOLVED] flash alternative

[hawklord]

hi everybody,

i've come to a full stop on installing an alternative to adobe flash player,

i have firefox installed and the most recent flash in the repositories but i want to upgrade so i've installed chromium and wish to get pepper flash installed and working,

i have libpepflashplayer.so but unsure on where to locate it,
at the moment its at opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/

i've also installed the wrapper so the pepper player can run in firefox, but failed on this as well,

can anyone help ?

thanks

[doktor5000]

So you have firefox, and want a newer flash, then you install chromium for pepperflash?
If you want a newer flash version, install chrome. chromium support for NPAPI plugins was removed two years ago, no flash with chromium, see viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2053

And please have a look at our MAQeia for flash player plugin: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=880

[hawklord]

thanks, yes, i have gone through those steps,

but still unable to get flash via libpepflashplayer.so working in either chromium or firefox

i have freshplayerplugin
i have opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so

firefox (about:plugins)
File: libflashplayer.so
Path: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Version: 11.2.202.559
State: Enabled (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

chromium (chrome://plugins)
only pdf viewer is listed

[jiml8]

about 18 months ago, someone on this board posted a link to a script that would install pepper flash with chromium. I tried it on a couple different installations and it worked fine.

I am providing that script here because maybe it will help you. I don't recall who posted it originally or where I got it from, but here is the script:

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
available () {
command -v $1 >/dev/null 2>&1
}
 
# Make sure we have wget or curl
if available wget; then
SILENT_DL="wget -qO-"
LOUD_DL="wget"
elif available curl; then
SILENT_DL="curl -s"
LOUD_DL="curl -O"
else
echo "Install wget or curl" >&2
exit 1
fi
 
# Check which Chrome stream the user selected to fetch from
CHROME_STREAM=stable
while [ 0 ]; do
if [ "$1" = "-u" -o "$1" = "--unstable" ]; then
CHROME_STREAM=unstable
shift 1
elif [ "$1" = "-b" -o "$1" = "--beta" ]; then
CHROME_STREAM=beta
shift 1
else
break
fi
done
 
# Set Output dir
PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR=${PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR:-/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash}
 
# Set temp dir
TMP=${TMP:-/tmp}
 
# Set staging dir
STAGINGDIR=$TMP/pepper-flash-staging
 
# Setup Arch
ARCH=$(uname -m | sed 's/i.86/i386/')
 
# Work out the latest stable Google Chrome if VERSION is unset
VERSION=$($SILENT_DL https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-${CHROME_STREAM}_current_$ARCH.rpm | head -c96 | strings | rev | awk -F"[:-]" '/emorhc/ { print $2 }' | rev)
 
# Error out if $VERISON is unset, e.g. because previous command failed
if [ -z $VERSION ]; then
echo "Could not work out the latest version; exiting" >&2
exit 1
fi
 
# Don't start repackaging if the same version is already installed
if [ -e "$PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR/chrome-version-$VERSION" ] ; then
echo "The latest Flash is already installed"
exit 0
fi
 
# If the staging directory is already present from the past, clear it down
# and re-create it.
if [ -d "$STAGINGDIR" ]; then
rm -fr "$STAGINGDIR"
fi
 
set -e
mkdir -p "$STAGINGDIR"
cd "$STAGINGDIR"
 
# Now get the rpm
$LOUD_DL https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-${CHROME_STREAM}_current_${ARCH}.rpm
 
DOWNLOADVERSION=$(head -c96 "google-chrome-${CHROME_STREAM}_current_${ARCH}.rpm" | strings | rev | awk -F"[:-]" '/emorhc/ { print $2 }' | rev)
 
if [ ! "$VERSION" = "$DOWNLOADVERSION" ]; then
echo "The version downloaded ($DOWNLOADVERSION) is different from the version expected ($VERSION)" >&2
exit 1
fi
 
# Extract the contents of the Google Chrome binary package
RPMHDRLGTH=$(LANG=C grep -abom1 '.7zXZ\|BZh9' google-chrome-${CHROME_STREAM}_current_${ARCH}.rpm)
 
case "$RPMHDRLGTH" in
*7zXZ) COMPRESSOR=xz ;;
*BZh9) COMPRESSOR=bzip2 ;;
*) echo "Unknown compression type in rpm!" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
 
echo "Extracting Flash from the Chrome RPM ..."
tail -c+$[${RPMHDRLGTH%:*}+1] google-chrome-${CHROME_STREAM}_current_${ARCH}.rpm | $COMPRESSOR -d | cpio --quiet -id "./opt/google/chrome*/PepperFlash/*"
 
cd opt/google/chrome*/PepperFlash
 
# Add version number file
touch "chrome-version-$VERSION"
 
# Escalate privileges if needed and copy files into place
if [ "$UID" = 0 ]; then
mkdir -p "$PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR"
cp * "$PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR"
elif [ -r /etc/os-release ] && grep -qx 'ID=\(ubuntu\|linuxmint\)' /etc/os-release; then
echo "Calling sudo ... If prompted, please enter your password so Flash can be copied into place"
sudo mkdir -p "$PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR"
sudo cp * "$PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR"
else
echo "Please enter your root password so Pepper Flash can be copied into place"
su -c "sh -c \"mkdir -p $PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR && cp * $PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR\""
fi
 
# Tell the user we are done
echo "Flash installed into $PPAPI_FLASH_INSTALL_DIR"

[ozky]

You could jiml use only x86_64 arch in your script google have killed 32bit chrome,you will get more cleaner script and easy to maintain it.
http://betanews.com/2015/11/30/google-k ... bit-linux/

[hawklord]

i'm 32bit
i get this when running the script

Could not work out the latest version; exiting

[hawklord]

i now have pepper flash working in chromium,

i opened a 32bit version of chrome from here

http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/google-chrome/d ... me-stable/

extracted the data.tar.xz to my /documents using ark

opened data.tar.xz with ark and copied the folder PepperFlash from opt/google/chrome into opt/google/chrome on my system

started chromium and checked flash version at adobe, says i have 20.0.0.306, this is fine as i only need it for one game,

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checked firefox and flash and found only a black flash screen, so uninstalled freshplayerplugin and adobe flash working as usual in firefox

[ozky]

Did you read my posted link ??? google have killed 32bit chrome so no updates to 32bit pepper flash.

[hawklord]

yes, but when i only have a 32bit cpu then 64bit becomes a challenge,

but many thanks for the info