First of all: pepperflashplugin-nonfree comes from Debian, as opposed to adobe-flashplugin which is Ubuntu-specific, and the fact that it is broken now that Google stops shipping the PPAPI Flash plugin with Chrome, starting with v54 released a few days ago, has been reported to the Debian maintainer Bart Martens:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833741 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841373 To repair the package, he could use Adobe's website instead of Google Chrome as the source for the PPAPI Flash plugin: as Gunnar mentionned the PPAPI plugin is now officially available from Adobe: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions Using this source would probably be simpler than the redirector.gvt1.com link, or ripping libpepflashplayer.so from Canonical's adobe-flashplugin package. That said, if the Debian maintainer fixes the package, changes to it will only land in the development release of Ubuntu, not in the already- released releases, unless an Ubuntu universe/multiverse maintainer manually updates it, which I wouldn't hold my breath for, given how few they are for so many packages. So Trusty/Xenial/Yakkety users will probably stay stuck with a broken pepperflashplugin-nonfree. Anyway, Ubuntu users are no longer supposed to use this package, as Gunnar mentionned, they should use Canonical's adobe-flashplugin instead as their source for the PPAPI Flash plugin: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash Gunnar's packaging of the updated beta NPAPI plugin is a new possibility too (for Firefox users), thanks Gunnar. In any case, and despite our wishes, pepperflashplugin-nonfree is unlikely to disappear from Ubuntu, because it is Debian users' sole (packaged) way of getting the PPAPI Flash plugin and because it has no Ubuntu maintainer who could stop it from being imported from Debian at each new Ubuntu development cycle. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #833741 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833741 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #841373 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841373 -- 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/freshplayerplugin/+bug/1632870/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
