Hi fellow slackers!

I'm having trouble getting VMWare's CIP (Client Integration Plugin) working with Slackware + Chrome. For Firefox, everything 'just works' for me at the moment, but I'm missing Chrome, so wanted to switch to that instead.

Some googling suggested I needed the Pepperflash plugin, so I've installed the Alien version. So I have working Chrome + Flash (thank you Bob). Next I tried to install the VMWare CIP bundle, which prompts for a plugins directory for Chrome, which it helpfully suggests might be /opt/google/chrome/plugins. I noticed that this directory hasn't already been created, so I smelled a rat.

Looking in Chrome, and putting chrome://plugins (and expanding details) gives me locations of plugins, but they are all over the bloody place, a far cry from the good ole' firefox days where a find / -name plugins would give me a bunch of locations to stuff my trusty libflashplayer.so in the hopes that at least one of them will work.

Even an strace didn't tell me a heckuva lot about where it's looking for plugins, as chromium forks soon after launch. strace -f ends up with Chrome simply not working properly and whinging some nonsense about sandboxes. How very tiresome!

Can anyone help?

thanks
Biff.

PS: I am on 64-bit slackware 14.1, if that makes any difference!

For the official Chrome, you should not have to install my PepperFlash plugin package because that is meant for Chromium, the open source version of Chrome. Chrome itself already contains this PepperFlash plugin.
The reason that this CIP plugin no longer works is explained here: http://www.vmspot.com/chrome-42-brea...ration-plugin/
The article mentions an override option but I wonder if that will work on Linux.
If all else fails, you will have to go back to Firefox.

Sorry, it's Chromium that I have installed. I got confused there.

I had looked at the page you mention, tried it, and it just displayed my plugins on Linux and seemed to have no effect. I hadn't noticed that it says on the image: "Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows". So presumably it doesn't apply to Linux.

Is there a fork of Chromium without this limitation? I wanted to switch to Chromium because it seems to have better clipboard support (e.g. copy picture in Gimp, paste into wiki works, but doesn't in Firefox).

thanks
Biff.