How can I install the flash player for Chromium in Ubuntu 16.04? [duplicate]

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I was wondering if someone could tell me how to install the adobe flashplayer for Chromium in Ubuntu 16.04.

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@bodhi.zazen it doesnt work. I can enable the canonical partners but the adobe-flashplugin is still missing from the software center. — Elysium, Apr 30, 2016 at 15:56
you need to tell us more then "it doesn't work" post the error message you are getting when installing. — Panther, Apr 30, 2016 at 16:09
@muru although I prefer peperflash and chromium, my understanding is pepperflash is now depreciated. See the wiki page I linked. — Panther, Apr 30, 2016 at 16:10
I'm voting to reopen this question because the installation process of PPAPI Flash became much easier since Adobe started to release it for Linux and Canonical packaged it in adobe-flashplayer. — David Foerster, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:02

David Foerster · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-11 09:04:45Z

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin

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There is no 'Canonical partners' repo on 16.04 (fresh install).
– bovender
May 6, 2016 at 20:02
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For now (October 2016, Ubuntu 16.04) I added canonical partner, installed adobe-flashplugin but I go in some pages who need flash, e.g. pond5.com (to edit a clip) and I see "Get the Flash Player to see this clip..." so it doesn't work I mean Chromium doesn't seem to have it, even if I just installed it. I restarted computer and browser, still same text telling to get flash player... any ideas?
– firepol
Oct 20, 2016 at 20:06
@firepol: Works for me: i.imgur.com/RPjQsN4.png
– David Foerster
Nov 11, 2016 at 9:10
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Additionally, I had to go to chrome://plugins and check always allow execution for the Adobe Flash Player plugin, otherwise some website would consider it is not installed.
– Metaxal
Dec 21, 2016 at 8:08
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chrome://plugins gives "This site can’t be reached" error.
– liang
Apr 29, 2017 at 6:02

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D-unit · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-30 15:51:08Z

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sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin

works for chromium and firefox

answered Apr 30, 2016 at 15:51

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Can you confirm that you're on 16.04?
– bovender
May 6, 2016 at 20:02
It does in fact not work at the moment. Installing 3rd party applications in 16.04 is broken at the moment. This is a bug that should be fixed in the coming days. A bad alternative is to install chrome, it includes flash
– D-unit
May 6, 2016 at 20:06

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Fluffy · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-30 16:02:41Z

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I stopped using Chromium, but I was using Pepper Flash for a while back then. It's deprecated now, adobe-flashplugin should be enough

answered Apr 30, 2016 at 16:02

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just enabled the 3rd part canonical, but it is not there.
– Elysium
Apr 30, 2016 at 16:04

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