How To Install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash is:
The main goal of the project is to get PPAPI (Chrome) plugins working in Firefox (and any other web-browser supporting NPAPI plugins). It implements a wrapper which behaves like browser to PPAPI plugin and implements NPAPI plugin interface for browser to use.
This particular implementation doesn’t implement any sandboxing, which means any malicious code can break through plugin security as there are no additional barriers. This is the same level of security as NPAPI Flash have.
Flash plugin for Linux provided by adobe stopped at version 11.2; for chrome/chromium users there is pepperflash plugin but it’s not supported by firefox/iceweasel/other browsers.
This package allows one to use the Pepper Flash plugin from Chrome in NPAPI web browsers.
There are three methods to install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
Install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
Install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
How To Uninstall browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
Uninstall browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash And Its Dependencies
To uninstall browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
Remove browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash Configurations and Data
To remove browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
Remove browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
References
- browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash website
- browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash on packages.ubuntu.com
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.