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howto install flash plugin for chromium?

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howto install flash plugin for chromium?

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Post by shallpion » Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:57 am

I tried to add sym-link use for chromium ( not chromium-bin ). But I received the following:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] www-client/chromium-5.0.342.9 USE="plugins-symlink*"
[blocks B ] www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer[gnome] ("www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer[gnome]" is blocking www-client/chromium-5.0.342.9)
What should I do to install flash plugin for chromium? Thank you.
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Post by Rexilion » Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:47 am

I'm not sure, but maybe you can just put the .so in a directory like ~/.chromium/plugins just like firefox?
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Re: howto install flash plugin for chromium?

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Post by phajdan.jr » Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:35 am

shallpion wrote:I tried to add sym-link use for chromium ( not chromium-bin ). But I received the following:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] www-client/chromium-5.0.342.9 USE="plugins-symlink*"
[blocks B ] www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer[gnome] ("www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer[gnome]" is blocking www-client/chromium-5.0.342.9)
What should I do to install flash plugin for chromium? Thank you.
You can't have both plugins-symlink enabled, and gecko-mediaplayer with gnome USE flag installed (it's going to cause bad browser hangs).

Here are some choices you have:
- disable gnome USE flag for gecko-mediaplayer and use plugins-symlink (I'd recommend this one if possible)
- uninstall gecko-mediaplayer and use plugins-symlink
- symlink manually, like Rexilion suggested
http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/
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Post by shallpion » Thu Apr 15, 2010 3:15 pm

Thank you. I manually linked it at /user/lib64/chromium-brower/plugins and it worked.
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Re: howto install flash plugin for chromium?

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Post by Jim6 » Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:57 am

phajdan.jr wrote:
shallpion wrote:I tried to add sym-link use for chromium ( not chromium-bin ). But I received the following:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] www-client/chromium-5.0.342.9 USE="plugins-symlink*"
[blocks B ] www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer[gnome] ("www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer[gnome]" is blocking www-client/chromium-5.0.342.9)
What should I do to install flash plugin for chromium? Thank you.
You can't have both plugins-symlink enabled, and gecko-mediaplayer with gnome USE flag installed (it's going to cause bad browser hangs).

Here are some choices you have:
- disable gnome USE flag for gecko-mediaplayer and use plugins-symlink (I'd recommend this one if possible)
- uninstall gecko-mediaplayer and use plugins-symlink
- symlink manually, like Rexilion suggested
Please post a bug if you know about an ongoing issue affecting users that can be fixed easily inside an ebuild.
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Post by lubo777 » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:05 am

shallpion wrote:Thank you. I manually linked it at /user/lib64/chromium-brower/plugins and it worked.
Thanks, I copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins and now I have chromium with a updated and working flash plugin :)
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Post by phajdan.jr » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:56 am

lubo777 wrote:Thanks, I copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins and now I have chromium with a updated and working flash plugin :)
1) This shouldn't be needed. chromium-10.x and higher should always use system plugins. Are you using an older version of chromium?
2) Copying the plugin induces a maintenance burden and a possible security risk. You'd have to re-copy it every time the plugin is updated on your system. A much better option would be to symlink it if you really have to.
http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/
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Post by mreff555 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:16 pm

lubo777 wrote:
shallpion wrote:Thank you. I manually linked it at /user/lib64/chromium-brower/plugins and it worked.
Thanks, I copied libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins and now I have chromium with a updated and working flash plugin :)

Could someone explain how to do this. I have libflashplayer.so copied to my /usr/lib64/chromium-browser,
Now what?
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