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Getting the Flash Plugin to work with Chromium in Fedora 11

Dear Friends,

I switched to Linux in April and haven't looked back since. It's been a great experience, and I owe most of my success to the helpful people here. Sorry if I'm boring you, I just wanted to take a moment to say thanks.

So I recently installed Chromium, but can't view flash videos or games. "No problem", I thought. I remember having to sort it out with Firefox when I first got things running. I looked for some tutorials online, tried every one I could find and nothing has worked. Here are all of the sites I visited, so as to avoid confusion and such.

http://my.opera.com/bashphoenux/blog...sh-on-chromium
I went here, but when I used the cp command as root, it said "no such file or directory".

So then I went here: http://rajaseelan.com/2009/07/27/how...edora-11-i686/
But when I did the Yum install, it told me I already had the latest version and there was nothing to do. Thus the subsequent commands didn't work.

Ditto with this one: http://www.fergytech.com/2009/07/a-c...-on-fedora-11/ Yum told me the requested package didn't exist.

At this point, I'm beginning to see a pattern, and several of the Ubuntu tutorials said to link the plugin folder for Chromium to the one for Firefox. I managed to do that, successfully, but when I type in

Code:

chromium-browser --enable-plugins

it opens a new instance of Chromium (without my theme) but still refuses to play flash videos. I'm sorry, this post must have been almost unbearable to read, but i wanted to be as detailed as possible.

Now what?

The nightly builds of chromium seem to have plugin support and extensions enabled by default. As long as you have plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or /usr/lib/firefox/plugins, chromium should recognise them and use them. You can get the latest build from here.

I feel really stupid asking this, but what do I do with the file once I've unzipped it? How do I run it?

you put it in the plugins folder

"yum install flash-plugin" should have installed it ,if you added the adobe repo
see
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.html
and
http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten.html
for flash
http://dnmouse.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7

I have the flash plugin installed. I meant the chromium build. I downloaded it from the website he provided, I just don't know what to do with it afterwards.

If you're running Fedora, you're best off adding the chromium repo and installing through that.

Afterwards, the command would be

chromium-browser --enable-plugins

You *might* have to copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins, or it might work with libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

To enable the repo, here's some instructions.

http://www.fergytech.com/2009/07/a-c...-on-fedora-11/

I really appreciate the help, but I've already gone through that site's instructions with no success.

well i am the poster of that article, unfortunately :P
i re-installed Chromium on ubuntu , i didnt need to make any amendments to any file, the flash content is working properly!!
try

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following two lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

save and exit the file

and then sudo apt-get update
and then sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
and after installation the flash just started working normally !! without any tweaking ...