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Author: betty
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To: Joseph Sinclair
CC: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: chrome or opera
On 10/04/2011 08:45 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> Betty,
>    On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), "sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer" will install flash (version 10.1.183 currently).  They went to an automated installer instead of a proper package so that they aren't having to repackage Adobe's mess, the package just downloads the Adobe installer and installs it for you.
> You can also install the chromium-browser package to get Chrome without the Google branding.
> To get the Chromium beta channel (more up to date, but less tested) put the following 3 lines in a new file "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium-beta.list"

>
> # Bring in the chromium beta channel for Lucid (10.04).
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/beta/ubuntu lucid main
> deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/beta/ubuntu lucid main
>
>
> Hopefully that will get chromium and flash working for you.
>
>
> On 10/04/2011 06:46 PM, betty wrote:
>> On 10/04/2011 06:35 PM, Adam McCullough wrote:
>>> Installing Flash on a linux version of Chrome takes a bit of trickery. What I wound up doing was making a soft link from the flash library to /opt/chrome/plugins. That did the trick.
>>>
>> uhh, how do i do that? or is that beyond my basic cl skill set?
>> thx
>>

hmmm, did the above, but sadly no change. flash files work only in
opera. too bad. maybe in the future. or maybe i should uninstall firefox
and reinstall an older version?
betty

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