Run Flash Webpage in Headless Chrome on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I am trying to run my Cucumber tests headlessly with Chrome on Ubuntu 14.04 (EC2 instance so no GUI). So far my setup allows this, as the below screenshot shows:

I have an issue when I come to a page with flash on it:

I have restarted the EC2 instance and killed all chrome processes, still no joy.

To clarify, a test will start and chrome opens the page with flash on it and I get this message. If I then end the test and start it again I get the same problem. I guess this is not actually restarting chrome as it is a new instance each time?

So to run these tests I am using the headless gem here which acts as the interface to xvfb.

I have Google Chrome 57.0.2987.133 and have added libflashplayer.so to /opt/google/chrome/pluginsusing this https://askubuntu.com/questions/14629/how-do-i-enable-the-partner-repository

A few extras things I have tried include:

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install

Is there a way to get this to work so I can render flash based sites? Do I need to enable the flash plugin each time I open chrome? I'm hoping I've missed something obvious.

Update

I have tried setting the pepperflashpluginpath when creating the Chrome profile but this is still not working:

Capybara.register_driver :chrome do |app|
  chrome_binary = '/usr/bin/google-chrome'

  Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome("chromeOptions" => { "binary" => chrome_binary, "args" => ["--ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so"] })
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :browser => :chrome, :desired_capabilities => capabilities)
end

Thanks

Answer 1

There were three key parts in getting this to work.

Install Chromium Browser

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser (at time this installed version 58)

The Chrome binary is now installed at

/usr/bin/chromium-browser

Install Flash plugin

https://askubuntu.com/questions/531672/how-to-install-flash-payer-in-ubuntu-14-04-lts

First go to /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the lines

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner

Then run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin

This installs the flash plugin at

/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

Install Chrome Driver

Then run

sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver

That's pretty much it, these were the steps that got me running this with Cucumber headless.