Opera Browser on Ubuntu?

**Daveski17** · February 13th, 2017

Thanks for the reply. Sorry about the jpeg size.

**bm0127** · February 16th, 2017

Have any of you all succeeded in installing Flash on Opera? It's working on Firefox for me, but not Opera. I'm running Lubuntu 16.04.2. Thanks in advance!

**1fallen** · February 16th, 2017

Originally Posted by bm0127

Have any of you all succeeded in installing Flash on Opera? It's working on Firefox for me, but not Opera. I'm running Lubuntu 16.04.2. Thanks in advance!

If I'm not mistaken for Opera you will need pepperflashplugin-nonfree package
See post #3 by mc4man here:https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2280567

Ubuntu Wiki:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OperaBrowser

**ubunticus** · February 16th, 2017

Originally Posted by bm0127

Have any of you all succeeded in installing Flash on Opera?

I believe running Flash is disabled in Opera by default. If you haven't enabled it go to settings>websites, scroll down to Flash and enable it.

**bm0127** · February 16th, 2017

Originally Posted by 1fallen

If I'm not mistaken for Opera you will need pepperflashplugin-nonfree package
See post #3 by mc4man here:https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2280567

Ubuntu Wiki:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OperaBrowser

I tried this, no luck. I think that Ubuntu Wiki page might be outdated. This is what Opera suggested: http://www.opera.com/docs/linux/plugins/install/ But this also looks outdated, as it says at the top of the page it's meant for version 11.

Originally Posted by ubunticus

I believe running Flash is disabled in Opera by default. If you haven't enabled it go to settings>websites, scroll down to Flash and enable it.

I tried this and had no luck. To test, I've been going to this page: https://www.whatismybrowser.com/dete...lash-installed Does this work for you?

**ubunticus** · February 16th, 2017

Did you install flash running this in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin ?

**deadflowr** · February 16th, 2017

To install flash for opera.
Open the program Software and Updates
go to Other Software and enable Canonical Partners
then reload and exit (reload should be the option on exiting anyway...)
then install the package adobe-flashplugin, not flash-plugin-installer, or peperflashplugin-non-free.

The adobe-flashplugin package contains both the npapi-plugin for firefox and the ppapi plugin for chrome and chrome-based browsers.
(Of which Opera is a chrome-based browser)

Unfortunately, if on 16.04 or newer(16.10, really) you need to install it through either the command line or using a secondary package manager such as synaptic.
(Since the Ubuntu Software program does not list non-gui applications like flash.)

So in a terminal run

Code:

sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin

and flash should install and become available on Opera.

Hope it helps

**bm0127** · February 17th, 2017

Originally Posted by deadflowr

To install flash for opera.
Open the program Software and Updates
go to Other Software and enable Canonical Partners
then reload and exit (reload should be the option on exiting anyway...)
then install the package adobe-flashplugin, not flash-plugin-installer, or peperflashplugin-non-free.

The adobe-flashplugin package contains both the npapi-plugin for firefox and the ppapi plugin for chrome and chrome-based browsers.
(Of which Opera is a chrome-based browser)

Unfortunately, if on 16.04 or newer(16.10, really) you need to install it through either the command line or using a secondary package manager such as synaptic.
(Since the Ubuntu Software program does not list non-gui applications like flash.)

So in a terminal run

Code:

sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin

and flash should install and become available on Opera.

Hope it helps

I uninstalled my flash installation and then installed via command line like you suggested, and everything seems to be working perfectly now. I believe I originally installed flash via lubuntu-restricted-extras, so perhaps something went wrong there.

Thanks for the help!