HowTo: Make Opera 9.25 work with Flash9 (if upgraded to r115)

[oleoleole]

This is not a howto to make newest stable Opera (today: 9.26) work with the newest stable Flash (today: v.9 r115). But at least make Opera 9.26 work with Flash 9 at all.

You can't use old .deb-files (since it's downloading the "current" from Adobe), and so you can't downgrade to flashplugin-version to work with Opera.

But it's anyway a solution, and I am one of those who don't want to run Opera 9.50b yet.

Anyway, the procedure is quite simple:

- start a terminal and go to or make a directory, name it to whatever you want and enter it. then do/write this:

Make sure you have "wget" and "alien" installed, just type "alien" or "wget" to find out, if not, install it using apt:

sudo aptitude install wget alien

Download Flash plugin v9 r48:

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm

(The .rpm-file includes the entire r48-module.)

Then convert the RPM to DEB:

sudo alien flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm

(Ignore the warning about --script)

Close your web browser(s).

Remove other flash versions:

sudo aptitude remove flashplugin-nonfree
sudo rm /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

Check if you have the plugin installed other places:

sudo updatedb
locate libflashplayer.so

(Delete any results you get (sudo rm /path/to/libflashplayer.so), if none, go to next step)

Install Flash plugin:

sudo dpkg -i flash-plugin_9.0.48.0-1_i386.deb

Now you can start your web browser(s). Opera should at least now be working with flashplugin.

NB! Upgrading flashplugin will destroy again.

[MRSherman1]

After hours of trying to restore flash in Opera 9.25 and Ubuntu 7.10 this did the trick. Thank you.

[taurusx5]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Incredibly, I had been trying to find a viable solution to getting flash and opera to cooperate with each other since installing ubuntu a month ago. It was an uphill battle to say the least. Opera is the ONLY browser I use and respect so I didn't want to use firefox or other idiotic alternatives. Thankfully, I found the answer to my problem in this thread. Thanks a million !!!!

[Ryzol]

Thanks a lot, this was very helpful.

[HoldSteady]

Thank you so much for the fix. I guess Adobe is slowly reaching out to the OSS community, but breakages like this make me wonder. Maybe it is more Opera's fault than Adobe, but the point is I don't care - adding features or upgrading a program is fine, but not when it breaks a function that is sadly so ubiquitous (Flash).

[UncleCz]

Thank you very much, i started to use firefox much more because of the lack of flash in opera under ubuntu.
Thanks to you, i can come back to my favourite browser, which is much faster on my system ...thx

[banished_one]

omg thank you so much

[ubuntu-freak]

Edit: Removed my post as it was incorrect.

Nathan

[fkamp]

Originally Posted by oleoleole This is not a howto to make newest stable Opera (today: 9.25) work with the newest stable Flash (today: v.9 r115). But at least make Opera 9.25 work with Flash 9 at all. You can't use old .deb-files (since it's downloading the "current" from Adobe), and so you can't downgrade to flashplugin-version to work with Opera. But it's anyway a solution, and I am one of those who don't want to run Opera 9.50b yet. Anyway, the procedure is quite simple:

Thank you very much. Until I found this solution, I couldn't figure out why Opera stable wasn't utilizing the libflashplayer.so that I had installed in /usr/lib/opera/plugins. (Because it was the newest version 115).

Thank you

[oleoleole]

This works also for Opera 9.26 ;]