Saturday, November 24, 2012

Flash out of date on Chromium


So, you finish installing Linux Mint (MATE and the 32 bits version on my case), you download, install all the updates and then reboot your box, start your Chromium and you get the annoying message:

"Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it is out of date"

And of course, Flash fails to execute.

So, in order to fix this I've downloaded the latest Flash release following the link on the page, and then select ".tar.gz for other Linux", and then untar it:

tar zxf install_flash_player_11_linux_i386.tar.gz

Then, make a backup of the original Flash object already installed on the system:

cd /opt/mint-flashplugin-11
sudo cp libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so.ORIG

Then copy the new one from the untarred directory over the original one:

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /opt/mint-flashplugin-11/

Then restart Chromium and everything will be kosher with Flash.

There is this link: Fix: Linux Mint Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it is out date but I found the instructions a bit unclear, so I'm posting this as well.


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