Monday, January 10, 2011

Where is the Flash in Chrome?

I installed Ubuntu 10.4.

Then I installed Google Chrome. This is the first thing I did. I went into firefox, and went to chrome.google.com, and hit the button. I don't like package managers, and avoid the command line like the pox.

Then, I started using Google Chrome. I went to Kongregate, and clicked on a game. It told me I didn't have flash. A few different websites told me the same. I assumed that they must have been wrong. I hit the link to Adobe, to install Flash, and it reassured me; of course, Google Chrome includes Flash. I checked my version - Chrome 5.0.375.126. Of course, I just downloaded it.

I scoured the internet for solutions. None worked. Many seemed to involve re-enabling Flash, or something like that. But insofar as I can tell, there is no Flash anywhere in my Chrome. I feel like I bought a Reese's cup, and found solid chocolate. I checked in the Chrome plugin manager, and everything. A few solutions told me to copy some garbage into my command line and hit enter (as almost all solutions to problems on linux entail). I did it, reluctantly, and it did nothing.

I thought Flash was supposed to come with Chrome. But it didn't. Sooooo... What gives?

Google Chrome version: Google Chrome 5.0.375.126 (Official Build 53802) WebKit 533.4 V8 2.1.10.15 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.126 Safari/533.4 Command Line /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

Operating System: Ubuntu 10.4 64 bit.

From ubuntu Daniel
  • I don't think Google Chrome for 64 bit comes bundled with Flash. I personally install the "Adobe Flash" (use those as search terms) in the Software Center and restart Chrome and it works.

    flashplugin-installer Install flashplugin-installer

    Daniel : Thank you for being magic.
    caspin : Some how `flashplugin-installer` was already installed on my system and flash still would not work. I unistalled then reinstalled it and now flash works fine in chrome.
    Matthew : Consider installing `ubuntu-restricted-extras`, which will bring in a lot of restricted packages like Flash. Unless you have an ideological reason not to (which is fine), it will save you a lot of time.
  • I noticed that chrome does get some plugins out of the firefox plugin directories. If a working Flash plugin is installed in firefox it is likely to work in Chrome. The flashplugin-installer package basically installs Flash for firefox.

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