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How to get flash working on opera.
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106498
Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 248 Location: NZ |
After downloading the newest opera from opera.com I found flash wasn't working. Oh bother, so heres a howto on how to install opera and flash. First of all go to opera.com, click on download, select slackware, 12.0, and save this file. You will also need qt (qt-3.3.6.pet). download this using the puppy package manager. First install the qt .pet. Then go to the directory of your opera .tar.gz and press ~. In the console that pops up type "tgz2pet" followed by a space followed by your opera .tar.gz's name. Click on the .pet thats created and it will install. Now you have opera! To get flash working (test if it already miraculously works first) open rox and go to /usr/lib/opera/plugins. Rename the file libflashplayer.so to something else. Now open another rox window and go to /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.2/plugins. Drag the file libflashplayer.so from there into the opera plugins window and select copy. Restart opera and flash should now work. disclaimer: This worked for me, there are no guarantees it will work for you. I used puppy 3.01. If anything breaks its not my fault. _________________ An expert is just a beginner with experience. Shamelessly representing TdeM! |
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RobertB
 Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 145 Location: Big D |
I'm running Puppy 2.17, with Opera 9.10, and it doesn't have a usr/lib/opera folder. However, opera:about shows that it uses two folders for plugins:
The seamonkey path contains libflashplayer.so, it works in Seamonkey, and Opera's Preferences shows that MIME type "application/x-shockwave-flash" references the file in the seamonkey plugins directory. But Flash isn't working in Opera. Now that my kids have dragged me into the '90s (we finally got a DSL hi-speed connection), suddenly YouTube videos are on the list of "want". The kids have figured out how to use multiple browsers, which is good, but I'm hoping to get Flash working in Opera anyway. 
Opening up the Opera plugins directory shows that there's no flash there. So I copied the file from the Seamonkey plugins directory. Next, I'll change the MIME association and restart Opera... will edit this post to tell the results. Result: No luck. I still have only a gray box where I should see my daughter's YouTube zombie video. The Opera preferences shows *both* paths for Flash files. However, in the advanced configuration (opera:config), there's a "Plugin Path" with the string:
I'll remove the Seamonkey path and try again. Result: Still no dice. Removing the Seamonkey path from the advanced configuration option (and restarting Opera) didn't remove it from the Preferences screen. So I deleted the plugin from Seamonkey's directory (and restarted Opera). That got rid of the additional Seamonkey reference... but it didn't fix the problem. I still get a gray box. So I copied the file back to Seamonkey so that it'll keep working, at least. Here's the only possible hint I can find. I've been starting Opera from the console to see what messages are displayed:
The Flash Player warnings don't appear until I attempt to access a Flash plugin in the browser. When I reload the page with the plugin, another set of similar messages is displayed (with a different process id). Do I have a corrupted or outdated library module? |
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ttuuxxx
 Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
You can use my package I made, Its the second latest one 9.25 http://www.puppylinux.ca/ttuuxxx/programs/opera-9.25.pet and flash works fine in it:) ttuuxxx _________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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RobertB
Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 145 Location: Big D |
That may be the best plan. But will I want to uninstall my current Opera dot-pup? (in which case, I'll need to back up my bookmarks *again* and set up my settings *again*, grr) |
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klu9
Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 345 |
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