Willing wheels

Here is what I did :

1. install ubuntu 9.04 (+ update it) on a usb stick (my hdd is almost dead, too bad) and boot on the brand new system
2. install opera (v9.64) from www.opera.com (.deb version)
3. install flash player (v10) from www.adobe.com/fr/products/flashplayer
4. restart opera

I tried flash player going to adobe website, and it did not work! It worked with FF, but not with Opera.
Going to Tools/Preferences/Content/Plugin-options correctly listed shockwave plugins

Shockwave Flash
application/futuresplash spl
application/x-shockwave-flash swf
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so

. I even copied plugin file (.so) into opera plugin folder (/usr/lib/opera/plugins) but it did not work.
To have flash plugin work with Opera, I performed a new install of Opera directly from opera repository (as explained here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OperaBrowser

It appears that installing manually downloaded deb file resulted in having the package ‘opera-static’ installed instead of ‘opera’ package, and flash player did not work for me with opera-static package.

=> I did the following:

1. run “sudo apt-get remove opera-static” to remove opera-static package
2. run “sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list” and add the following line: deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
3. run “wget -O – http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -” to add opera signature key for packages
4. run “sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install debian-archive-keyring opera” to install ‘normal’ (eg. non-static) opera package

That’s it.
Starting freshly installed opera, I went to flashplayer page and it got correctly displayed.

sources

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OperaBrowser useful tutorial (thx)
• http://www.adobe.com/fr/products/flashplayer flash player page => to download it & test it
• opera:plugins to see your own plugins

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