Why doesn't Adobe Flash Player work for Opera 9.6?

**cardinalsfan030** · August 17th, 2009

It works fine for Firefox, but when I try to watch a video say on youtube or hulu, I get nothing. I just use Opera for my backup broswer incase Firefox starts acting up. I went here > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP just to make sure that I had it installed and my GDebi package installer said that it was. So is there a command that I can run from the terminal to install Flash Player for Opera?
Thanks for your help

**HappyFeet** · August 17th, 2009

You need to download the .tar.gz flash file from here. Right click and "extract here". As root, you will now put the libflashplayer.so file into /usr/lib/opera/plugins.

I'll assume you have the libflashplayer.so file on your desktop. Do:

Code:

sudo cp /home/your_user_name/Desktop/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins

Make sure the D in Desktop is capitalized. And change your_user_name to the name you login with.

Restart opera if open.

**cardinalsfan030** · August 17th, 2009

Originally Posted by HappyFeet

You need to download the .tar.gz flash file from here. Right click and "extract here". As root, you will now put the libflashplayer.so file into /usr/lib/opera/plugins.

I'll assume you have the libflashplayer.so file on your desktop. Do:

Code:

sudo cp /home/your_user_name/Desktop/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins

Make sure the D in Desktop is capitalized. And change your_user_name to the name you login with.

Restart opera if open.

Ok i downloaded the file, extracted it, I kept everything on my desktop just to make it simple, the file shows in usr/lib/opera/plugins but i still have no flash. I have restarted Opera a couple of times, but still nothing.