Guys!! Opera Won't Play Clips on YouTube

Why are they proper instructions? Why don't you install Opera with Synaptics?

I know there are some issues in installing Flash player with Synaptics, but then you can install it by downloading it from adobe's web site (searching for "adobe flash player") and following their instructions to install it into: /usr/lib/opera.

Regards

This link can help you out:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OperaBrowser

Bhavani Shankar.

Zagadka77, I tried installing both opera and flash player through Synaptics, and it fails all the time. Someone told me that installing the deb of Opera from Synaptics is the wrong way to go. I really need to install opera and flash properly to get them to be compatible with each other. Otherwise, I'll have to reformat my drive for XP.... I have no choice.

First remove flashplugin-nonfree and Opera (you can save your .opera directory to keep your settings)

Then http://www.opera.com/download/linux/?ver=9.50b Install it.

It is beta, yes, but it works.

Now go to System->Administration->Software Sources and go to the Updates tab. Click "Pre Release...."

Run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

That should do your work..

Bhavani Shankar.

First remove flashplugin-nonfree and Opera (you can save your .opera directory to keep your settings)

Then http://www.opera.com/download/linux/?ver=9.50b Install it.

It is beta, yes, but it works.

Now go to System->Administration->Software Sources and go to the Updates tab. Click "Pre Release...."

Run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

That should do your work..

Bhavani Shankar.

Bhavani, got a quick question.... can you please take a look at this website to see if this is good instruction on installing opera and flash player?... thanks!

http://swforsyth.blogspot.com/2007/05/installing-flash-player-for-opera.html

Also, why when I enter: "sudo ./install.sh" (without quotes) in terminal did I get the following error:

x@xxx:~$ sudo ./install.sh
sudo: ./install.sh: command not found

Why is that?

yes.. If you are using ubuntu 7.04 it works out.. But If you are using 7.10 the answer I gave above is the recomended method..

Typically sh files are shell scripts, that will in turn do other things (like maybe install some files included in a package). (Even I use shell scripts for getting latest version of popular software and installing them... :) )

to install from a sh file do

sh *name of your program*.sh

In this particular case its

sh install.sh (Only thing is that the .sh file must be executable)

This link will give you more info:

http://www.gatzet.com/installing-sh-files-in-ubuntu-704.html

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

Bhavani, I did as you and others had asked, followed everyone's instructions, including your own, but I still get the following error... Why is that?

x@xxx:~$ tar -zxfv opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en.tar.gz
tar: v: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en.tar.gz: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
x@xxx:~$ cd /home/opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en.tar.gz/opera
bash: cd: /home/opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en.tar.gz/opera: No such file or directory
x@xxx:~$ tar -zxfv opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en-687
tar: v: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en-687: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
x@xxx:~$ cd /home/opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en-687/opera
bash: cd: /home/opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en-687/opera: No such file or directory
x@xxx:~$ .opera
bash: .opera: command not found
x@xxx:~$ sudo ./install.sh
[sudo] password for x:
sudo: ./install.sh: command not found
x@xxx:~$
x@xxx:~$
x@xxx:~$ sudo ./install.sh
sudo: ./install.sh: command not found
x@xxx:~$

Hey!!! I finally got Opera installed by following this command: sudo apt-get install opera...

However, after I downloaded flash player (install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz) to the desktop, I tried the following command to try to untar it, but it failed:

tar -xvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux
sudo ./flashplayer-installer

Then, I tried the following command: tar -zxf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz... I got the following error:

x@xxx:~$ tar -zxf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
tar: install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Ok, so far Opera has been installed successfully. Where do we go from here to install flash player? Thanks..

First remove flashplugin-nonfree and Opera (you can save your .opera directory to keep your settings)

Then http://www.opera.com/download/linux/?ver=9.50b Install it.

It is beta, yes, but it works.

Now go to System->Administration->Software Sources and go to the Updates tab. Click "Pre Release...."

Run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

That should do your work..

Bhavani Shankar.

> However, after I downloaded flash player (install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz) to the desktop, I tried the following command to try to untar it, but it failed:
>
> tar -xvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
> cd install_flash_player_9_linux
> sudo ./flashplayer-installer

It seems simply that you downloaded the archive to the desktop, and then you are trying to extract it from your home directory.
Try to :

cd Desktop

and then

tar -zxf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

and so on...

Zagadka77, thank you for replying. Please, keep in mind that I'm a newbie. As to your instructions, I should just open a terminal and enter: "cd desktop"? and then enter "tar -zxf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz"?

So why was I given the following instructions that are proven to work?
tar -xvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux
sudo ./flashplayer-installer

Ok, the fact is that, when you open a terminal, you are located in your "home" directory, that is: "/home/<username>/" (<username> must be your current username), but you downloaded the archive into "/home/<username>/Desktop", so you must change your current location before extracting the archive.

With the command "cd Desktop" you are telling the terminal to "change directory" (cd) to Desktop. After that command you are not more in the home directory, but in the "/home/<username>/Desktop" directory. Note that in Ubuntu (and in all the other Unix/GNU/Linux systems) you must care about upper/lower case, so "Desktop" is different from "desktop".

Then, when you are in the Desktop directory, you can type the suggested commands:

tar -xvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux
sudo ./flashplayer-installer

and follow the instructions.

Try again and let us know if all goes good.

Bye

Zagadka77, I did as you said and the following is what I got. Keep in mind though, that flash player still isn't working in Opera after the "install". I just can't understand this because my friend (who moved away) has flash player 9 working perfectly in Opera 9.25. Maybe the plugin in /usr/lib/opera isn't the directory where I should have installed it to. Please, let me know... thanks! Take a look at what I got from the terminal.

x@xxx:~$ cd /home/x/Desktop
x@xxx:~/Desktop$ tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
install_flash_player_9_linux/
install_flash_player_9_linux/flashplayer-installer
install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so
x@xxx:~/Desktop$ cd install_flash_player_9_linux/
x@xxx:~/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux$ sudo ./flashplayer-installer

Copyright(C) 2002-2006 Adobe Macromedia Software LLC. All rights reserved.

Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed on this machine.
You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as the "root" user.
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed system-wide.

Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/
To install Adobe Flash Player 9 now, press ENTER.
To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.

NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue...
Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/lib/opera

----------- Install Action Summary -----------
Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in the following directory:

Browser installation directory = /usr/lib/opera
Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y
Installation complete.

Taurus i should remind u that taring and installing is only for advanced linux geeks
even i dont do that while installing any program as it can damage ur installation
by this i dont discourage u from experimenting
to my knoledge taring and installing is too demanding for a newbe
u can install both opera and flash through synaptic
even linux gurus do this to install these popular software
they use the command line to install the some software not present in synaptic
most of the programs are available in native formats
ie. in the case of ubuntu it is debian and since opera and flash are used widely they are available in debian

as went through the posts above i could see that uve sucessfully installed opera

and i should inform u that u cannot install flash through synaptic because it is installing of flash is bugged and programmers are finding a way through
so follow the following instructions

first go to the top panel and go to system-administration-software sources
it will prompt u for the password and a window will appear
then navigate to the updates tab and check 1. important security updates
                                                                       2. recomended updates
                                                                       3. pre-released updates
the click the close button and it will prompt u for reloading click it it will gather all the updates and u will be notified of the updates
install the updates and reboot ur system

then go to this link

 http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%2Fmultiverse%2Ff%2Fflashplugin-nonfree%2Fflashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2%2Breally0ubuntu12_i386.deb&md5sum=4c2cde9277e18c47a42ae8efc3720eb7&arch=i386&type=main

and click on any of the mirriors to download the flash player.
then install the flash player the same way as installing a software in windows.

Hope this helps u

if u have further questions feel free to ask.
remember u are part of the "linux community".

try the opera 9.50. flash will work. why not using the .deb?

flash 10 comes with a .deb. its on the adobe site. please remove the old flash, using synaptic.