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    • cty68955
      cty68955 last edited by

      I am using Ubuntu 15. I already have pepperflash installed. It worked great until Opera updated yesterday. Now nothing with flash will work. Opera's site says download adobe flash and put it in /usr/lib/opera/plugins, but there is no Opera folder in /usr/lib. I installed with the install button on Opera's site. How do I get flash working again on Ubuntu?

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      • avl
        avl Opera last edited by

        Hi @cty68955, if you use the pepperflashplugin-nonfree package, you have to run

        update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install
        

        to update it.

        Alternatively, use package adobe-flashplugin from the Canonical Partners repository (you might have to enable this repository in Ubuntu first, it's not enabled by default).

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          Hi @cty68955, if you use the pepperflashplugin-nonfree package, you have to run
          update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install

          to update it.
          Alternatively, use package adobe-flashplugin from the Canonical Partners repository (you might have to enable this repository in Ubuntu first, it's not enabled by default).

          Does this mean that one has to run the update everytime there is an update to Opera ? If so that would be unacceptable.
          I have Chrome installed as well.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            On my laptops I don't have the pepperflash plugin installed and the flash player is updated in Opera. In all instances I also have Chrome installed. I have now removed the pepperflash plugin from my desktop to see what happens when Opera gets updated again.

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            • avl
              avl Opera last edited by

              Does this mean that one has to run the update everytime there is an update to Opera ?

              No. What happened here is that Opera blacklists versions of Flash that have a known security issue. So because Flash was already installed but not updated (because of the weird way pepperflashplugin-nonfree works), and Opera put the version that was installed on a blacklist because it had known security issues, Flash stopped working. After updating Flash it worked again (because now the installed version was not on the blacklist).

              If you're on Ubuntu, use adobe-flashplugin from Canonical Partners instead, it gets updated regularly and doesn't require you to run any other commands.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Understood. Thanks avi.

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                • mr-demonium
                  mr-demonium last edited by

                  I'm using opensuse tumbleweed, and I still have a problem with flash plugin. I have created directory:
                  /usr/lib64/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so
                  but I cannot change the directory of flash plugin. I choosed settings > website > Manage individual plug-ins > show details, and what I can see is that flash plugin directory is fixed: usr/lib64/chromium/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
                  How can I change it to /usr/lib64/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so ?

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