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will i ever be able to install flash player

Asked by Andrew

hi i am obviousley a compleate plank as i have spent well in excess of 200hrs trying to install the flash player on my pc , i use opera browser i have dowloaded the flash player version 9,o,115,0.tar.gz for linux (x86) this has been dowloaded to my desktop i then extracted it this created another item on my desktop which i have run in terminal . this is what i get in the terminal install flash player 9 for linux
adobe flash player 9 will be installed on this machine
you are running the adobe flash player installer as a non root user
adobe flash player 9 will be installed in your home directory
to install flash player 9 know press enter
 to cancel instalation at any time press control c

when i press enter i follow all the instructions and it appears to have installed the i player
however when i try to use opera browser it always says i need to install flash player ,
after doing all this the mozilla browser will go to bbc iplayer for example and i can select a program to watch , but as soon as i click play the browser shuts down .
is there any hope at all that i oneday could get this to work how many thousands of hours will it take before i get it working or is it just impossible and i am wasting my time
to say i am frustrated with this is a major understatment
can anyone help before i end up in a padded cell please . Thanks Andrew

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Munchkinguy (10068660) said : 		#1

Have you set it to install specifically in the Opera plugins folder, or have you followed the defaults?

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Munchkinguy (10068660) said : 		#2

Also, see if the following website helps: http://www.opera.com/linux/docs/plugins/install/#flash

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Andrew (workshop1702) said : 		#3

tried all this still no luck , has anyone actualy ghot there opera working with flash player i have tried the current version and the beta 9.5 b but i cannot get it to work spent another 6 hours today absolutly noprogress at all . realy is rediculus i could install thison windows in 2 minutes . when i go the the adobe site for flash player downloads there doesnt appear to be one for linux and opera browser which one should i download is there another version somewhere that i cannot find . this problem is realy realy driving me nuts , insane pissed of to say the least i just cannot believe something sosimple could be made so hard or even impossible .if there is anyone out there that has managed to get the flash player running on opera please please tell me how you did it before i am certified as raving mad.

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Andrew (workshop1702) said : 		#4

right i have just realised that the machine that works with opera and flash player has opera 9.24 on it . so i thought great why not put 9.24 on the other machines. so i used addremove programs and removed opera then i downloaded and installed opera 9.24 . i have a problem when i try and start opera i now get an error message saying apperars another opera is using the same config directory because its lock file is active:/home/andrew/.opera/lock do you want to start opera anyway . if i click yes this message goes but opera wont start also i cannot shut ubuntu down using the normal red shutdown restart change user icon it just wont do anything . i have tried this on booth my other machines and now have this problem on them booth presumably i have not uninstalled the old version of opera compleatley . anyone any ideas how i cure this please. andrew

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sum1nil (ten-wings) said : 		#5

Have you tried to remove the lock file?
From your home directory
> dir .*
 to view all the config files( I think those are all the .somename directories)
> cd .opera
> rm -i lock

or uninstall opera
> cd .opera
> rm -i *
> cd ../
> rmdir .opera
 and reinstall opera

You may also need to change permissions to remove certain files like lock.
chmod 644 theFilename I think is proper.

This is only a suggestion. I don't want to screw up your machine, but it should get rid of all of opera's config files
Hang in there.

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Andrew (workshop1702) said : 		#6

thanks but i need more idiot type instructions i am new t ubuntu , i am learning slowly but need a step by step giude on how to do this please . Thanks Andrew

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#7

Actually the instructions that are specified are rather easy to follow and are step-by-step, just read the instructions carefully and try them according to the order given and it should work.

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Andrew (workshop1702) said : 		#8

what do i do put these in terminal

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Best sum1nil (ten-wings) said : 		#9

Yes you launch a terminal Applications->accessories->terminal.
The terminal should naturally open in your home directory.
and then type:
> dir .*
 to see the list of config dirs.
> cd .opera
 if
>rm -i lock
 says permission denied use the chmod command.
The chmod command sets permissions on file access.
and then repeat
>rm -i lock
 else
or uninstall opera.
Launch the terminal window and:
> dir .*
 to see if .opera is still there
> cd .opera
> rm -i *
> cd ../
> rmdir .opera
 and reinstall opera
Linux takes a little getting used to if coming from the windows world.

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Andrew (workshop1702) said : 		#10

Thanks sum1nil, that solved my question.