Flash Won't Work on Ubuntu

[asker77]

asker77 last edited by

Actually, I do have Flash installed and it works fine on another browser. Opera says it needs to be downloaded which I have done in all versions except the tar file.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

What type of Flash? Firefox and related browser use the NPAPI version, while Chromium and Opera use PPAPI.

[asker77]

asker77 last edited by

I must have the firefox version. But have tried installing three versions that are on the Flash Download list for Linux.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

The one listed in your package manager as pepperflash-nonfree should work, provided you've enabled the nonfree repository. Later versions of Ubuntu have only one package for Flash but it installs all versions.

If you go to opera://plugins what does it say?

[asker77]

asker77 last edited by

Pepperflash installed. opera://plugins just says "Chrome PDF Viewer"

[asker77]

asker77 last edited by

Pretty sure the nonfree repository is enabled. It looks like the right multiverse lines are uncommented.

[huwanhsin]

huwanhsin last edited by

Try what is told at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash .

[dolphintweety]

dolphintweety last edited by

Adobe created a deb file for flash plugin for opera https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer

If you click on the link above, the site will detect your browser, you only need to select the right package for your system:
Just select APT for Ubuntu 10.04 and higher

Hope that helps.

[asker77]

asker77 last edited by

Thanks dolphintweety,

However, the Ubuntu software center pops up and says...

"There isn’t a software package called “adobe-flashplugin” in your current software sources."

I'm on version 14 so it should have worked.

[dolphintweety]

dolphintweety last edited by

I got 16.04 LTS. There is an article about this issue on webup8 but it's old and I don't know if it's still working but you could give it a try http://www.webupd8.org/2014/12/how-to-get-flash-and-h264-to-work-in.html

Good luck!

[arnoldo1466]

arnoldo1466 last edited by

I have got 16.10 and the latest opera version and none of this works unfortunately. This is really incredible that a browser cannot have Flash working easily (while it's working on Firefox and Chrome).Has anybody been able to work it out? Thanks a lot for your help.

[ns-aeon]

ns-aeon last edited by

I am using Ubuntu 16.04, and flash sometimes works, while other times it doesnt.

[gustavwiz]

gustavwiz last edited by

@asker77 and everyone else: You have to enable the canonical partners repository in order to install adobe-flashplugin. You can do everything with these three commands:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu `sed -n '/UBUNTU_CODENAME/s/.*=//p' /etc/os-release` partner" 
sudo apt update
sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin

Then restart Opera.

The first command adds the repository. You can also do that graphically by following these instructions, but the command is easier (cred to Ruarí Ødegaard).