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This is the homepage of Pepper Flash Player. Also known as DebianPts:pepperflashplugin-nonfree package.
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This is the homepage of DebianPts:pepperflashplugin-nonfree, a Debian package for installing Pepper Flash Player, like [[FlashPlayer]] is the homepage of the DebianPts:flashplugin-nonfree package.

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This is the homepage of pepperflashplugin-nonfree, a Debian package for installing Pepper Flash Player, like FlashPlayer is the homepage of the flashplugin-nonfree package.

Introduction to Pepper Flash Player

pepperflashplugin-nonfree is a Debian package for installing Pepper Flash Player, like FlashPlayer is the homepage of the flashplugin-nonfree package.

Pepper Flash Player is maintained by Google, and is newer than Adobe Flash Player. Adobe currently still provides security fixes for Adobe Flash Player. Google provides newer features in Pepper Flash Player. Pepper Flash Player can currently only be used with Chromium (and with Chrome).

The package is a separate Debian package, not integrated in flashplugin-nonfree. Users can choose between Adobe Flash Player and Pepper Flash Player by installing the corresponding Debian package. Both packages will co-exist for some time, until Adobe finally ends security support for the Adobe Flash Player. Pepper Flash Player uses a different interface with the browser than Adobe Flash Player, so it doesn't fit in the mechanism of "alternatives" (flash-mozilla.so). When both are installed on one system, then Chromium currrently only sees the Pepper Flash Player.

The design of the Debian package for installing Pepper Flash Player is similar to flashplugin-nonfree. The difference is that flashplugin-nonfree downloads just the Adobe Flash Player, while for Pepper Flash Player the Debian package downloads Google Chrome, and then unpacks it to make the included Pepper Flash Player available for use with Chromium. Other than that, the mechanism is the same. A different design would be to simply include the Pepper Flash Player in the Debian package. But the upstream license doesn't allow that. Another design would be to bump the Debian package version for each newer Pepper Flash Player. But that would reopen the debate on how to get the updated Debian package in stable in a user friendly way and sufficiently fast. Note that the Debian package would pull in a combination of feature updates and security fixes in a new upstream release of closed-source software, which is somewhat difficult for Debian procedures to install quickly in stable. So for now I'm sticking to the design of flashplugin-nonfree for the same reasons that package is designed that way.

Installing Pepper Flash Player

Debian 7 "Wheezy"

32 bits / i386

Any volunteer to write this section?

64 bits / amd64

  1. If not already done you must add backports to your sources.list. To do so follow those instructions.

  2. Using Terminal as Root run the following command to install Pepper Flash Player from Wheezy Backports
    apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
  3. Still using Terminal run the following command to update Pepper Flash Player
    update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install
  4. Close all your browser windows. Then open your browser. Flash should work.
  5. This step is optional. Still using Terminal run the following command to know what version of Pepper Flash Player you have installed.
    update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status

Notes

  • If Flash is still not working here are a few things you could try
    • Ensure that all your Chromium or Chrome browser windows are closed. It's important to close all browser windows otherwise Flash will not work. Then open your browser to test Flash.
    • If still not working try to reboot your computer. Sometime Chromium or Chrome windows seems all closed but one might still be open in the background, on another desktop, or frozen in memory.
    • If still not working try to temporally deactivate all your Chrome or Chromium plugins and extensions. Then test flash.
  • The Pepper Flash Player works in both Chrome and Chromium only. It does not yet work with Iceweasel or Firefox. For Flash to work with Iceweasel or Firefox you have to install another package. Read more here. Currently both packages can coexist.