Chromium + Pepper Flash (wrong location)

Hey there!

I had problems today with the usage of flash in chromium after an update (chromium 56.0.2924.87). I’ve got a solution, but a bad one, so maybe someone got a better idea.

Issue:
I have had chromium-pepper-flash installed, but after the update I permanently got “Couldn’t load plugin” in YT.
chrome://plugins/ showed, that the location of the Adobe Flash Player was “/usr//usr/lib64/…” instead of “/usr/lib64/…”.

I extended the command of chromium with --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib64/chromium/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so ,

Well, this works fine, but is there better way to change the browser’s default config? Someone mentioned to set the CHROMIUM_FLAGS in /home/USER/.config/chromium/Default to ", but Default is a directory and not a file.

Thank you guys!

Ok, got it - the config file is called “chromium” in /etc/default/ - there you can adjust the CHROMIUM_FLAGS and correct the location of pepper flash.

I’m not sure whether this is related to your problem, but chromium-pepper-flash doesn’t exist any more since a while.
In other words, the package you have installed is old and outdated.
Install flash-player-ppapi instead.

And AFAICS, the package flash-player-ppapi should add the correct path to /etc/default/chromium on installation.