Guy!!! Help with Installing Flash Player 9 for Opera 9.25 !!!

taurusx · 02-08-2008, 10:22 PM

Hey Guys!!! I tried to install flash player 9 but was unsuccessful to view video on Opera 9,25, like YouTube. Below are commands copied from terminal so you can see what I did. When the installer asked me where I wanted to install the plugin, I specified: /usr/home/opera. I don't know if this is correct since it didn't work in Opera.. Please, tell me what I did wrong and what are steps needed to install Flash to work in Opera successfully. Here's what I did:

x@xxx:~$ cd /home/x/Desktop
x@xxx:~/Desktop$ tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
install_flash_player_9_linux/
install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer-installer
install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so
x@xxx:~/Desktop$ cd install_flash_player_9_linux/
x@xxx:~/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux$ sudo ./flashplayer-installer

Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved.

Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.
You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as the "root" user.

Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed system-wide.

Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/
To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.
To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.

NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue...
Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,

or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/lib/opera

----------- Install Action Summary -----------
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in the following directory:

Browser installation directory = /usr/lib/opera
Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y
Installation complete.

Perform another installation? (y/n): n

Please log out of this session and log in for the changes to take effect.
The Adobe Flash Player installation is complete.

x@xxx:~/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux$

MoonMind · 02-09-2008, 08:22 AM

Try

Code:

$ whereis opera

and furthermore look in your ~ for .opera. I'd say since the script didn't complain, there's a place like /usr/lib/opera, but obviously, it's not the right place for the plugin.

Additionally or alternatively, I'd suggest reading up on the topic - Google gave me this (first result!):
http://www.opera.com/linux/docs/plugins/install/

M.

benerivo · 02-10-2008, 02:10 PM

I don't think the current version of flash works with Opera 9.25. You can either use an older version of flash, or use the Opera 9.50 beta (i've used it and it's very stable). Many problems with plugins are that they are installed to a location that the browser does not look to. An easy way to install the flash plugin is to download the package from the adobe site, extract the archive, and copy the libflashplayer.so file to somewhere in your home directory. Then read this page to point Opera to that location.

taurusx5 · 02-11-2008, 12:45 PM

benerivo, thanks for the reply. I solved my problem. I got Opera 9.25 and Flash 9 to work successfully with each other through a guide on ubuntu forums. I was amazed that I can now see youtube on opera. Thanks anyway... now, if I can only solve my problem where I have no sound...

frenchn00b · 03-31-2008, 01:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MoonMind

Try

Code:

$ whereis opera

and furthermore look in your ~ for .opera. I'd say since the script didn't complain, there's a place like /usr/lib/opera, but obviously, it's not the right place for the plugin.

Additionally or alternatively, I'd suggest reading up on the topic - Google gave me this (first result!):
http://www.opera.com/linux/docs/plugins/install/

M.

Could flash works for both iceape and opera ????????????????????

Code:

Flash Player (Adobe)

Command line instructions to locate the Flash plug-in if it is installed: 
locate libflashplayer.so, or 
find / -name libflashplayer.so 2> /dev/null

If Flash plug-in is not installed, or you wish to upgrade, proceed as follows: 
Download the plug-in from Adobe's Web site.
Follow the instructions on the download page. The installer will offer to install the plug-in, and for Opera you should choose /usr/lib/opera as the installation path.
Restart Opera.
Verify that the plug-in is working by going to Adobe's test page.

For additional information on Flash Player for Linux, see Adobe's blog. 
MIME types:
application/futuresplash:spl:FutureSplash Player
application/x-shockwave-flash:swf:Shockwave Flash