The other day I had a problem with the Chromium repo a fellow Fedora user maintains. I couldn’t get Flash to work after his latest update. Someone on the forum told me that Google has a beta release of Chrome. So; I removed the “chromium” repo I had previously installed and after installing the new one, I got confused. I thought to myself, “What is the difference between Google Chrome and Chromium?” I thought Chromium would be exclusive to Linux.

Well; I Googl’d it and found this wiki. I thought I’d attempt to give it some traction since others must have the same question.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome

How to Enable Flash Support

Once I got Google Chrome installed, of course, the Flash plugin wasn’t associated with the web browser. So; here’s a quick tutorial. First off, the Chrome install is now in the “/opt” directory.  If it’s not there create a “plugins” directory:

$ sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins

Now you’ll need to make a symbolic link to the “libflashplayer.so” file. This can be accomplished with the following command.

$ cd /opt/google/chrome/plugins
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

The system will create an alias file named “libflashplayer.so” within that plugins directory. If you’re running an x86_64 system then you’ll need to make a symbolic link to the “nswrapper” file instead of the direct “libflashplayer.so” file. Do a search and find the location that fits your system.

$ locate libflashplayer

Here’s a link to an Ubuntu-related post on Flash support for Google Chrome. http://maketecheasier.com/enable-flash-support-in-google-chrome-in-ubuntu/2009/08/19

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