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I need some help installing flash to Opera

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• Started 12 years ago by slislick24
• Latest reply from Trixar_za
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   slislick24
   

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   I was told Flash doesn't work with Midori so I installed Opera, and I downloaded Flash from this link

   http://trixarian.net/downloads/flash-plugin.tazpkg

   and this is what I get when I install it:

   Installation of : flash-plugin

   Copying flash-plugin... [ OK ]
   Extracting flash-plugin... [ OK ]
   Extracting the pseudo fs... (lzma) [ OK ]
   Installing flash-plugin... [ OK ]
   Removing all tmp files... [ OK ]
   Processing post install commands... [ Failed ]

   flash-plugin (final) is installed.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   eeschimosu
   

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   I didn't find anything to work until now. This works for Seamonkey and Opera. Thank you!

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Darjeeling
   

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   The Flash plugin you have installed is quite old (April 2012) and there have been numerous security updates since. For Flash Player to work in Opera you'll also need a number of files from the Firefox browser. If you're up to it I recommend you do the installation manually:

   01. Close Opera

   02. Create these two directories in /usr/lib ...
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib# mkdir firefox
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib# mkdir flashplayer

   03. Download Firefox from here ...
   https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html
   ... and extract the archive in your Downloads directory
   tux@slitaz:~/Downloads$ tar -xjvf ./firefox-*.tar.bz2

   04. Copy these 7 files from the /Downloads/firefox directory to /usr/lib/firefox
   libnspr4.so
   libnss3.so
   libnssutil3.so
   libplc4.so
   libplds4.so
   libsmime3.so
   libssl3.so

   05. Open a root terminal in /usr/lib and create symlinks to the 7 files
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/libnspr4.so libnspr4.so
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/libnss3.so libnss3.so
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/libnssutil3.so libnssutil3.so
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/libplc4.so libplc4.so
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/libplds4.so libplds4.so
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/libsmime3.so libsmime3.so
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/libssl3.so libssl3.so

   06. Delete the Firefox stuff in your Downloads directory if you don't want to keep it

   07. Download the Flash plugin (Linux 32-bit, GZIP Installer) from here ...
   http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
   ... and extract the archive in your Downloads directory
   tux@slitaz:~/Downloads$ tar -xzvf ./install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz

   08. Copy libflashplayer.so from your Downloads directory to /usr/lib/flashplayer

   09. Open a root terminal in /usr/lib/opera/plugins and create a symlink ...
   root@slitaz:/usr/lib/opera/plugins# ln -s /usr/lib/flashplayer/libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so

   10. Delete the Flash stuff in your Downloads directory if you don't want to keep it

   That's it. You can check whether your Flash plugin is still up to date here ...
   http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
   ... and keep it updated by simply dumping a new version of libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/flashplayer.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Darjeeling
   

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   Stupid me. Obviously, it's best if you download Firefox and the Flash plugin BEFORE you close Opera. Ah, well ...

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   Why would he need Firefox to play Flash?

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Darjeeling
   

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   If you check the dependencies of libflashplayer.so ...

   ldd /usr/lib/flashplayer/libflashplayer.so

   ... and cross-check the resulting list of files
   against the 15 libraries that come with a
   Firefox installation ...

   libfreebl3.so
   libmozalloc.so
   libmozsqlite3.so
   libnspr4.so
   libnss3.so
   libnssckbi.so
   libnssdbm3.so
   libnssutil3.so
   libplc4.so
   libplds4.so
   libsmime3.so
   libsoftokn3.so
   libssl3.so
   libxpcom.so
   libxul.so

   ... these 7 Firefox libraries remain as dependencies:

   libnspr4.so
   libnss3.so
   libnssutil3.so
   libplc4.so
   libplds4.so
   libsmime3.so
   libssl3.so

   Without these 7 libraries the Flash plugin won't work in Opera.
   But I suspect that most people have Firefox installed anyway
   and therefore they don't notice the dependencies when they're
   also using Opera.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   True, I never noticed and it would explain why flash refused to work when I just had midori and tazweb installed. That's probably why it installs libfirefox with the meta package too. I also noticed that most browsers look for libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Darjeeling
   

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   > ... most browsers look for libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

   I have also read this somewhere. But I prefer to keep things separate and not to mix Mozilla and Adobe stuff. I think it's best to put libflashplayer.so into a dedicated directory and to provide each browser with a symlink in its native plugin directory. This works well with Firefox and Opera.

   The advantage of just using libflashplayer.so instead of properly installing the Flash plugin is that one avoids the unnecessary FP Properties Editor (1 MB). The initial FP configuration can be done with Adobe's online editor ...

   http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html

   ... which I always set to its most intolerant (basically, I allow nothing). Then, in order to prevent the particularly nasty Flash cookies, ...

   http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/

   ... I delete all the Flash cookies (except "settings.sol") and make parts of the /.macromedia tree read only:

   List cookies:
   tux@slitaz:~$ find -iname '*.sol'

   Delete all cookies except "settings.sol".

   Make the cookie directories read-only to prevent new cookies:
   tux@slitaz:~$ chmod -fR 0500 .macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/
   tux@slitaz:~$ chmod -fR 0500 .macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/

   This works well for the Flash Player stuff we're using regularly (YouTube, DailyMotion, various Live TV streams etc.). But I'm not sure if this is true for active content like online games and other stuff like this ...

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   That's why I use Bleachbit because Firefox really doesn't clean the cache and cookies very well. It also takes care of the flash player cache.

   Posted 11 years ago #

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