Hello,

I' ve started this thread to avoid an off-topic discussion in this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ckware-903768/

System: Slackware 13.37
Browser: Opera 11.51
Flash Player: 10.3

The instructions given on Opera's page:
http://www.opera.com/docs/linux/plugins/install/#flash
led me to nowhere (the addon does not work).

Any suggestions ?

I wanted to avoid an an off-topic discussion, but the answer was given in the original thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ackware-903768

Thanks derstephen and ruario for your answers :-)

One of the key packages that Flash needs to run in browsers that are not Gecko-based (i.e. Mozilla derived) is typically called nss or libnss on most distros. As far as I know it is only Slackware and derivatives that call it seamonkey-solibs.

I just thought I should clear that up since we are discussing this in Linux General and it may not be immediately obvious that my previous advice in the other thread was in the context of a discussion about Slackware.

That said, if you are using a distro that does dependency checking and you install via the native package manager this dependency should be handled for you. You will therefore only hit this problem if you retrieved the Flash tar from Adobe directly (perhaps to try out the latest Flash development version) or if your distro has a packaging error and has not set the dependencies correctly. If the latter do remember to log a bug with them. Without the nss/seamonkey-solibs package it is not just Opera that will have trouble playing Flash, other browsers like Konqueror or Epiphany (now WebKit-based) would also fail.