how to get flash to work in opera?

poohduck · January 04, 2018, 09:36:11 AM

I have opera 45 and sparky 4. I am unable to install flash plugin. I tried the manual install from flash plugin download site. There are 2 flashplayer options in synaptic package manager for chromium and mozilla. Will either of these work?

poohduck · January 04, 2018, 09:46:30 AM

The mozilla plug in didn't work. It won't be chromium.

Pretty shitty; both adobe flash and opera are fairly sizable outfits that they can't make something basic like this work.

Capitain_Jack · January 04, 2018, 11:58:21 AM

Take a look here:
http://www.opera.com/docs/linux/plugins/install/#flash

poohduck · January 05, 2018, 09:13:03 AM

Thanks for the try. I did try that 1st time up. I don't have either of the locations mentioned in the instructions. Those instructions are for Opera 11, I've got Opera 45, so that might be why they're not relevant.

Now, if I knew where Opera keeps plug ins now :)

I also tried the instructions in the readme that came as part of the flash install - no such folder either. I did create one where it was mentioned though, because the rest of the path was there. With the above Opera instructions half the path is missing.

Wombat · January 05, 2018, 11:45:32 AM

Flash comes ready to roll with Chrome!

poohduck · January 07, 2018, 02:07:27 AM

Quote from: Wombat on January 05, 2018, 11:45:32 AM
Flash comes ready to roll with Chrome!

Chrome is google. Google can't help itself as far as data collection goes. That's why I really want to be able to use linux on pc and the likes of cyanogenmod on android. I see that chrome is really good, I've just avoided it. Opera is generally awesome. I was trying to watch sbs on demand (Australia) and it will only work with the latest adobe flash. I really don't think Opera uses adobe now; they just haven't told anyone. Opera does play some video, obviously not flash. Can't get the "open in vlc" to work either.

Capitain_Jack · January 07, 2018, 11:21:16 AM

Have you tried firefox-esr? It still support flash...

Wombat · January 08, 2018, 01:54:13 PM

SBS on Demand runs in Konqueror, the file manager..even better than firefox ESR. I'm not sure of the specifics as it's the first time I've tested it out as a web browser and possibly it is pulling something from chrome. Really need to try it out on a pc without Chrome to see.

There may be issues if running 32bit.

I also can't get vlc to run.

penguin · January 11, 2018, 11:03:52 AM

maybe too late ...
my experience with flash plugin in opera. (Mx Linux 64 bit)

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https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=419904#p419904