Pepper Flash Player is maintained by Google, and is newer than Adobe Flash Player. Adobe currently still provides security fixes for Adobe Flash Player. Google provides newer features in Pepper Flash Player. Pepper Flash Player can currently only be used with Chromium (and with Chrome).
The package is a separate Debian package, not integrated in flashplugin-nonfree. Users can choose between Adobe Flash Player and Pepper Flash Player by installing the corresponding Debian package. Both packages will co-exist for some time, until Adobe finally ends security support for the Adobe Flash Player. Pepper Flash Player uses a different interface with the browser than Adobe Flash Player, so it doesn't fit in the mechanism of "alternatives" (flash-mozilla.so). When both are installed on one system, then Chromium currrently only sees the Pepper Flash Player.
In this howto we'll install the pepperflashplugin-nonfree package from the contrib section of Wheezy backports. The plugin will then automatically install on the system, and Chromium will work with flash content on the web.
Fire up the terminal and as root add backports to your sources.list (dk can be replaced by whatever local mirror you want, e.g. us):
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# echo "deb http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
Then update
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# aptitude update
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# aptitude -t wheezy-backports install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
If you want to check if you have the latest version, type:
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# update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status
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# update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install