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Flash 9 with Opera 9.20 on Linux (GTK problem)

Monday, March 31, 2008 9:57:17 PM

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The current Flash 9 Browser Plugin for Linux requires the browser to support GTK. As Opera for Linux is QT-based, it does not offer a GTK-API to plugins. Opera 9.5 Release Candidates now implement GTK support. However, Opera 9.5 is far from stable, and not suitable for production use (= my experience).
If you have accidentally installed the current Flash plugin (r.115), or your package manager upgraded it automatically for you, this means no Flash support in Opera 9.20.
However, there is a quick workaround:
  1. Uninstall the current Flash plugin.
  2. Download a ZIP archive with all Flash 9 Plugin versions (73 MB) from Adobe.
  3. Extract install_flash_player_9r48_linux.tar.gz from the 9r48 folder in the archive.
  4. Extract libflashplayer.so from the tar.gz and put it e.g. in /usr/local/lib
  5. In Opera's plugin preferences add this path to the plugin paths and re-scan for plugins. Opera should detect the Flash plugin and use it from now on.
  6. Watch funny videos on Youtube

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Comments

Berttreb Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:52:43 PM

Thanks for the how-to! Works great (once you figure out how to get root permission...) bigsmile

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 3, 2008 9:38:57 AM

Anonymous writes: Thanks! works great

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