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So, some time ago PPAPI plugins, were stopped to work on google's chrome n chromium for linux, which really sucked for me at least .. Just figured that google have something called pepperflashplayer and I followed this https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer/Installing to install it.It worked like a charm but the problem that I am facing is that in plugins there is no pepperflashplayer just some old version of adobe flash player. If I run
update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status
I get
Flash Player version installed on this system : 15.0.0.152

But again I don't see it and vids wont work :(

ideas/solutions?

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Quick troubleshooting for based on the earlier replies from and — the pepper (PPAPI) plugin is often present on the system but not in a location Chromium scans automatically, or Chromium needs to be told where it is. First, locate the PPAPI files (the shared object and the accompanying manifest) so you know the exact path and version. On Debian-style systems the packaged PPAPI drop used to live under a pepperflash directory (look for libpepflashplayer.so and manifest.json). (packages.debian.org)

If the files exist, point Chromium at them explicitly. Either launch Chromium with the PPAPI flags or add them to the distro startup file so Chromium always uses that path/version. The manifest contains the version string; Chromium accepts --ppapi-flash-path and --ppapi-flash-version (you can set these in /etc/chromium-browser/default as CHROMIUM_FLAGS on many Debian/Ubuntu installs). Example checks and edits you can run locally:

find / -name libpepflashplayer.so 2>/dev/null
cat /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/manifest.json   # read the "version" string
# example CHROMIUM_FLAGS entry to add to /etc/chromium-browser/default:
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=99.99.99.99"

(Replace paths/version with what you find.) ()

A couple of special cases that explain why a plugin can be “installed but invisible”: if your Chromium is the snap package it won’t see system libraries unless you copy the .so into the snap runtime area, and if an older NPAPI/Adobe package is present it can confuse detection — remove or disable legacy Flash packages before forcing PPAPI usage. If you use the snap, copy the .so into the snap’s local lib directory and restart Chromium. ()

Last point: Flash is end-of-life and blocked in modern browsers. If the goal is to play archived SWFs, consider using a maintained emulator/archive (for example Ruffle or BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint) rather than relying on an unsupported system plugin. This avoids security and compatibility problems long-term. (adobe.com)

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Member Avatar for pi man

Check to make sure that you have the file correctly downloaded, and you are going to the right place

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?? if I didn't have it installed, --version would fail ..

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I also had problems recently with this. It was on my old computer on which I had ElementaryOS installed. I tried a lot of things to fix it, but couldn't manage to get it to work. I figured that the problem might just be that ElementaryOS is linked to some very old and antiquated repositories of Ubuntu. So, I switched to the latest Lubuntu and installed pepper flash plugin without any issues, and it worked fine! I also don't have any issues on my two other (modern) computers that run the latest version of Kubuntu. So, it might be that you just have a distribution that is too old.

I think there might be some interference between the Adobe flash plugin and the Pepper one. Maybe you should try purging (apt-get remove --purge) all the installs that you might have lingering in your system, and re-install from scratch chromium and pepper flash (chromium first). This might do the trick. That's about all I can recommend.

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Hello Mike,
thanks for answering :), About my os version, I am pretty sure its the latest one released. In order to get to the pepperflashplayer, I had to add a rep in my source.list file and then I could install it. As I mentioned, when I check my pc I get back that the newest version of it is installed but in my chromium I don't see it at all being listed. There is only 1 flash player, some old version of adobe flash which won't work and if I disable it, when i try to run a video it says "sockwave player cannot be loaded", if I enable and run a video, it says you need adobe flash player to run this

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