Wednesday, July 18, 2012

enabling flash with chromium browser on linux debian 6.0.5

I installed linux debian 6.0.5 on a vmware instance.  I then installed Chromium browser from the repo.  Also installed flashplugin-nonfree package, which is supposed to install flash.  Flash was not working.  Company blocks flash dowload page, so went home and downloaded generic linux flash install package, named install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz

Unzip the tar and extract libflashplayer.so to any directory.  Then copy the file to the chromium browser's plugins directory - /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins

I did this as root, so I chmod 777 the file.  Restart browser, flash works :)

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