cannot install flash player in opera or firefox

Please goto this URL :

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Follow the Installation instructions for .tar.gz installation. I hope you will be successful. If not please give a feedback.

Andrew,

Fire up a Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and execute the following command:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Enter your password. After its installed, Restart Firefox.

With Regards,
Zombie.

great it appears i had already done it as it says its already installed i must have forgoten to restart it after installing . thats it now runnig on firefox . any idea how to do it for opera please as i find its a better browser. Andrew

Andrew ,

Fire up a Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and execute the following command:
sudo ln /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins/
Restart Opera

With Regards,
Zombie.

ps. Please mark the question as solved if it solved your problem

tried this and it says command not found som i presume it must be wrong or i am not putting spaces in the correct place , could ypou confirm where spaces are . Thanks Andrew

Andrew,

sudo ln /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins/

With Regards,
Zombie.

Andrew,

Copy paste should work just fine.

With Regards,
Zombie.

have tried it manualy and copy and paste it comes up with no such file or directory. affraid i still need help please

have the same problem with my tatung tablet same error as my pc still cannot install opera flash player on these machines.

I know there was some problems to install Flash under Firefox 2

Please try this quick workaround: open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Open Firefox 3.0 from Applications->Internet->Firefox 3.0 "Gran Paradiso"
Then try to visit a flash video required page for example:
http://www.youtube.com/
the Firefox 3.0 browser install flash player in a working way.
When you open the Firefox (2) it usually start works good with flash.

Hope this helps

stillnolucki cannot instalthe flash player on one pc and one tablet , works great on another pc none of the sugestions so far have worked anyone else got any ideas please . andrew

i have gonethrough allof these suggestions twice tried them allstill will not install HELP PLEASE BEFORE I PULL ALL MY HAIR OUT WILLNEED A PADDED CELL SOON .ANDREW

I have a similar problem. My Firefox has Flashplayer working fine, my Opera does not. I have created the correct paths in Opera (Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Plug in Options > "/usr/lib/opera/plugins:/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins")
I have even copied the file 'libflashplayer.so' into the Opera plugin directory.
Flash still does not work!
I can understand Andrew's frustration.
I am a newbie to Linux-Ubuntu, but so want to get away from Windows.
I like most of what I see, but it is so frustrating not being able to do simple things.
I want to use Opera because some sites I need do not work with Firefox.
Help would be greatly appreciated.

I have just solved this after reading elsewhere.

Goto to Opera > Help > Support
Click on 'Download'
Click on 'Show other versions'
Select 'Linux i386'
Select 'English US (Opera 9.50b)
Select your version of Ubuntu and install.

It is a beta version, but my Flash Player is now working - Yipeeee!

Mike

Hello andrew:

You can try as mike said or you can get your flash working on opera 9.25 itself.....

Refer this link for a detailed explanation

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=679212

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

still no luck nothing works wikll have to go back to windows ubuntu has miles to go before it is a viable usable system i have spent weeks trying to get this sodding flash player must have spent 200hrs or more on it . obviously wasting my time . none of the suggestions work why do they work for other people but not for me . i have no flash player no network and no working printer after spending about 2 months trying to get it all working . how can linux be an alternative when such simple things can eat up 100s of hours of my time and i get absolutley nowear. affraid i will give it till the end of this week and then its unfortunatley back to windows its crap but at least it can be st up unlike ubuntu which seems totaly impossible to set up . if anyone can help before the end of thsi week todays date is 30/03/2008 i would be very grateful but if not affraid i have no choice but to return to windows as so much of my sytem is unusable . Andrew

please somoene help with this problem its driving me totaly insane i have instaled opera 9.50 as mike suggested then instaled the linux flash playerwhich seemed to instal ok however my opera browser still says i need to install it and my mozilla browser will now go to the bbc i player i can select a program to watch but as soon as i click on it to play the browser shuts down . Andrew

great the problem has got worse i have done a shut down and restart now opera will not run so i removed it using addremove programs and ree instaled it from operas web site . it refuses to run . also mys taskbar has gone wrong i now have the aplications bar and the taskbar and a third one down the side with nothing on it when i run an aplication it doesnt show in any of them . any help on this also please

dont try opera 9.5 causes problems with opera lock file the only machine i have running with opera and flash player has opera 9.24 on it just trying opera 9.26 but no luck so far anyone any suggestions on how toinstalflash player on opera 9.26

seems this is totaly impossible to do will have to wait untill they fix the bugs not worth wasting anymore time on it

Hi Andrew, I'm totaly with you, have been trying to do the same for months. Seeing as flash player seems to be quite fundemental to a lot of people, can't it or something similar be included in the update releases? Dont stress about it too much though, hair takes a long time to grow back and lifes too short! e*

Hi Andrew, I'm totaly with you, have been trying to do the same for months. Seeing as flash player seems to be quite fundemental to a lot of people, can't it or something similar be included in the update releases? Dont stress about it too much though, hair takes a long time to grow back and lifes too short! e*

Actually, just having looked at the adobe web players pages for downloading flash, if you look at the linux x86 bit it only specifies flash players for firefox/mozilla AND NOT opera, so essentially what I get from this is that ubuntu dosent support opera, which is a crying shame as they seem to be the best combination. still not going back to windows though and firefox is too full of code and garbage that just slows an already overworked pc down to zilch. Gotta a lotta sites that I'm just waiting to visit once this problem with flash, ubuntu and opera get's resolved!
No Help i suppose but at least it seem to answer a few questions.
Hope all is well and you still have hair! e*

Good News, i have been having the same problem. I followed the first link under European. Downloaded this package and installed it, after that opera's flash worked perfectly.
The Link To The Website is...............http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/i386/flashplugin-nonfree/download...............

Hope This Works for you: J-masta

Good News, i have been having the same problem. I followed the first link under European. Downloaded this package and installed it, after that opera's flash worked perfectly.
The Link To The Website is...............http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/i386/flashplugin-nonfree/download...............

Hope This Works for you: J-masta

Having problem installing Flash-Player. I'm unable to install need help to install you tube and flash-player can I get help with installing??? No matter what I do it does not work. Why am I having problems??

@Lucrethia McGrew please ask a new question from here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion