Public bug reported: pepperflashplugin-nonfree downloads the Chrome for Linux Debian package (.deb) from the Google and extracts the Flash PPAPI plugin (libpepflashplayer.so) to make it available to other browsers system-wide. pepperflashplugin-nonfree is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux. pepperflashplugin-nonfree will need to look somewhere else online for libpepflashplayer.so.
A Chrome user reported the missing Flash plugin in Chrome 53 beta. A Chromium developer answered that the Chrome browser is not bundled with the Flash plugin anymore. It seems that a Flash plugin still exists for Chrome but the user must now install it manually. Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=645687 Here you can see the relevant change in the build script; only ChromeOS gets libpepflashplayer.so bundled with Chrome: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/366d572053dd85c8eeda802f423716d9b008fe01%5E%21/#F0 (side note: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/ offers Windows and Mac versions but no ChromeOS version) ** Affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: flash ** Summary changed: - Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 on Linux + Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632870 Title: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1632870/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
