How to Enable Flash in Google Chrome for Fedora 11 i686

So you’ve installed the latest development builds of Chromium for Fedora Linux. The only thing lacking is that youtube is not loading. If not, what are you waiting for? Refer to one of my previous posts.

First make sure you install the Adobe yum repository.

As root:-

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Then install the flash plugin.

yum install flash-plugin.i386

The flash plugin will be installed in /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

Chrome plugins are supposed to be located in /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins. So lets create a symbolic link, so that whenever your Adobe flash plugin is updated, your Chrome automatically gets the latest version.

n -sv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Now start your Chrome browser from the command line, with the --enable-plugins switch. This will enable the flash plugin.

Here’s a screenshot of me watching a video from youtube on chrome:-

Flash Player in Google Chrome for Linux

Say goodbye to geek productivity once this is done

Tags: chrome, fedora, fedora 11, flash, flash-plugin, How To, install

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Comments (4)

#1 written by Justin Hopkins
August 18, 2009 - 12:21 am

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In the command where you make a symbolic link, it looks like your missing the ‘l’ from ‘ln’ .

Thanks for this tip!
#2 written by Justin Hopkins
August 18, 2009 - 12:22 am

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Also, it looks like when following your guide to adding the chromium repo and installing via YUM, the launcher gets things enabled by default:
chromium-browser –enable-plugins –enable-extensions –enable-greasemonkey
#3 written by harry krishna
October 19, 2009 - 4:09 am

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thanks for the post. for 64bit folks, change the “lib” to “lib64″ on the second file. i did a “locate” to find where the chromium-browser plugins were located.
#4 written by harry krishna
October 19, 2009 - 4:18 am

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still not there. i only did link command since i was already flashing with firefox, but no go.

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