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Author: Stephen
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To: nicepenguin, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: chrome or opera
All I ever did with ubuntu was visit the adobe flash installer and have it
run its course. That made it work globally.
On Oct 5, 2011 7:37 PM, "betty" <> wrote:
> 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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