installation
Debian tends to install chrome without flash player.
Warning
Do not attempt to install it by hand, you could mess up your system. Particularly do NOT :
- download the tar.gz file
- unpack it in the root /
It will change the ownership of some directories like /usr and /usr/lib. Which cause for instance virtualbox to fail (see virtualization). And more importantly do NOT
- chmod -R root.root /usr
As you may understand i did do that naively, too much programs will not run with /usr files as 'root' and you will not be able to recover which user they should be. Fastest way out of that was a complete reinstall of debian.... ;)
currently the right way
Install the pepperflashplugin, see this page
Reached from searching the debian wiki
It will advise to install from aptitude so you will need to add sid to /etc/apt/sources.list :
| changetitle | |
|---|---|
or from the command line :
| changetitle | |
|---|---|
Then pepperflashplugin will be available, and you will have flash without the annoying yellow bar.
This supersedes the method described below, because that tends to display a very annoying yellow bar above all sites using flash, even though the flash parts are working it still annoys the hell out of you by saying you should install flash. So just for the record, next describes another outdated method :
the almost right way
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add 'contrib' to the appropriate lines. And
And restart chrome.