Cannot use Flash in Chromium

Question

I need to use YouTube. I have Flash enabled in Chromium's settings, but it always says "could not load shockwave". I am running Lubuntu 13.04

Solution

Thanks to Erich E. Hoover and his team you can use Pipelight to run Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight and Unity Player in your native Ubuntu browsers.

The steps, reproduced here:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends pipelight-multi
sudo pipelight-plugin --update
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable flash

Comments

[Thomas Ward]

That sounds like a bug in chrome, or a case of you not having Flash installed anywhere...

[Uri Herrera]

Are you sure you are using Google Chrome or Chromium?

[Uri Herrera]

See this question: askubuntu.com/questions/158388/…

[Parto]

and by the way, flash in linux will stop working in April. omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/chromium-npapi-flash-dropped-april-2‌​014

[Rémi Benoit]

Chrome include Google's wrapper around the flash plugin called PepperFlash. Chromium doesn't ship with it and use only the plugin from Adobe.