Hello people.

I can't get flashplayer work with Opera 10. I _know_ this has been reported over and over again, but I think I read most of the variants.

I'm running Slackware64. I have Opera 10.00 installed. I installed the 64 bit-version of libflashplayer (tried in several places. Now it's in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins). Opera simply doesn't report it.

It does see it, apparently. An strace of Opera running reveals this:

lstat("/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib64", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=135168, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib64/mozilla", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=9560488, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib64", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=135168, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib64/mozilla", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=9560488, ...}) = 0
pipe([31, 32]) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f0893504790) = 19084
close(32) = 0
poll([{fd=31, events=POLLIN}], 1, 100) = 0 (Timeout)
kill(19084, SIG_0) = 0


Which does seem to indicate it was found, doesn't it?

I'd appreciate ideas!
John

I remember having read that the problem could be an incompatibility between libc versions used in
libflashplayer en Opera (though it seems quite improbable - there should have been loads of
reports if this were true). How can I check the libc version in each?

Mmm, flash is working OK with Opera 10.01 from SlackBuilds.

Have you had Opera scan for new plugins?
Tools, Preferences, Advanced, Content, Plug-in options,
Find New.

Yep. Opera 10.01 (built from SlackBuilds) is working just fine here as well with flash.

Do you have seamonkey or seamonkey-solibs installed?

When I used Opera I remember flash itself could not find some of the libs it needed. Do a:
to check.

If you don't want to install seamonkey-solibs you can add the path to the firefox directory into /etc/ld.so.conf instead.

I am experiencing the same problem. Flashplugin 10 won't work in opera, but flashplayer 9 works properly. The problem occurs also in Kazahase webbrowser, that I build upon the webkit-engine. I don't use opera or Kazehakase in combination with firefox or seamonkey.

That did it! In all the pages I went through, I never found a reference to this problem (obviously). I was convinced that ldconfig would scan through all of the subdirectories of the /usr/lib64 folder by default, but it seems to skip the firefox-xxx dirs that are there (anyone know why?)...

I added /usr/lib64/firefox to ld.so.conf, and made a symlink from firefox to the latest version installed.

THANKS!
John