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    • 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?

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      • asker77
        asker77 last edited by

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

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        • asker77
          asker77 last edited by

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

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          • huwanhsin
            huwanhsin last edited by

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

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            • 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.

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              • 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.

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                • 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!

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                  • 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.

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                    • ns-aeon
                      ns-aeon last edited by

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

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                      • 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).

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