Installing Flash Debug for Chrome when not installed in default location

Question

I do not have the necessary permissions to install anything in var, opt etc. and so have Google Chrome installed in my user folder.

I wish to install Flash Debug, however I can't find anywhere that I have permissions to put the plugin that Chrome will find. Is it possible to tell it where to look? I have tried $chrome_dir/opt/google/chrome/plugins but it is not showing up in about:plugins.

Answer 1

Note that it does make a difference if you are using a 32bit or 64bit OS. There is no 64bit debugger for Linux (thanks Adobe!!) so to get it to run you have to do something like the following script. I've taken this from sites online so I'm not sure who the original author is. There are some credits listed. I take no credit myself

Basically, AFAIK, Chrome will use the plugin from Firefox. This script will remove anything that is existing, install the dependencies such as nspluginwrapper (to make the 32 bit plugin work on 64 bit) and ia32-libs which are also necessary, then redownload the debugger plugin and install it

I think now that Chrome bundles Flash Player you have to go into about:plugins and disable the integrated debugger. See here for more info on that: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/839/cpsid_83950.html

#!/bin/bash
# Script  created by
# Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com
# Super minor updates by jason.melton[at]gmail[dot]com
# Released under GPL  

echo "Stopping any Firefox that might be running"
sudo killall -9 firefox  

echo "Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:"
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper  

echo "Installing ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper"
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs nspluginwrapper  

echo "Getting libs"
sudo getlibs -p libcurl3
sudo getlibs -p libnss3-1d
sudo getlibs -p libnspr4-0d  

echo "Installing Flash Player 10"
cd /tmp
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flashplayer_10_plugin_debug.tar.gz
tar zxvf flashplayer_10_plugin_debug.tar.gz
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo chmod +rx /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so  

echo "Linking the libraries so Firefox can find it."
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/  

echo "Done :-)"

Answer 2

Chrome (I'm using chromium) picks up plugins from the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory so you can just add libflashplayer.so there.

You can then go into Preferences->Under The Hood->Content Settings->Plugins->Disable Individual Plugins. You should see '2 files' next to the flash plugin, and if you expand the details you can disable the non-debug flash player.