lewmur Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I'm running Mint 16 and just installed the Chromium browser but the Flash plugin won't install. When the nag comes up telling me to install the plugin, I click on it and choose the APT option for Ubuntu and then "Download". At this point a box appears saying Chromium needs to launch an "external application to handle apt" but when I click "Launch Application" and error box comes up saying "Unknown channel 'petra-partner'" and the install aborts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 That is because Adobe flash does not work on Chrome/Chromium. Chrome has the pepper-flash built-in but you need to install it on Chromium. Here is the link for LinuxMint 16: http://www.itworld.c...0-linux-mint-16 1. Open a terminal window.2. Type in the following command then hit Enter. sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install https://support.goog...er/108086?hl=en Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted April 8, 2014 Author Share Posted April 8, 2014 That is because Adobe flash does not work on Chrome/Chromium. Chrome has the pepper-flash built-in but you need to install it on Chromium. Here is the link for LinuxMint 16: http://www.itworld.c...0-linux-mint-16 [/size][/font][/color] https://support.goog...er/108086?hl=en I get a "command not found" when I do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Sorry here ya go: http://www.noobslab.com/2014/01/pepper-flash-alternative-to-adobe-flash.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Also, read the last comment if you are using 64bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Instead of using Chromium, I just installed Google Chrome using dpkg from chrome.google.com's Debian package which failed, installed curl installed for updates, and then used -f to install it, and it added the source to my sources and updates when I do updates with apt-get now. Has Flash already built in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Seems to me that after simply installing Google Chrome, flash works in Chromium (in Debian). I use Chromium almost all of the time, and if I remember correctly, all I had to do to get flash working in Chromium was to add Chrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I found out the hard way that not all extensions are supported in Chromium. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/dzjD_8L-SDY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 What extensions? I have not ran across one extension that doesn't work on chromium. Oh wait, that thread was from May 6th, 2011 so things may have changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I found out the hard way that not all extensions are supported in Chromium. This may be true, I don't know. All of mine work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 With Debian Jessie all I did was enable the contrib repository in Synaptic and then install pepperflashplugin-nonfree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I am sure they all would work now...but back when I first tried Chromium, that was not the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I installed Chrome too. Works fine for the 2 flash streaming sites I use it for which don't support the old Linux flash plugin. Iceweasel for everything else. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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