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    Is Opera Developer on Linux supposed to support Flash Player?

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    • sgunhouse
      sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

      @hibou57, do you use 14.04 or a newer version? These days Adobe Flash includes both versions and should be correct.

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        Did you enable the "Canonical partners" source from the "Another software" tab in the software and updates app? Once you enable that you can install adobe-flashplugin package with synaptics or apt. This solved it for me.

        Hello,

        The Canonical Partners check‑box was disabled in Synpatic (strange, I thought it was enabled). I checked it, then installed adobe-flashplugin which deinstalled flashplugin-installer, but it's still the same, as an example, I can't play DailyMotion and Facebook videos.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          @hibou57, do you use 14.04 or a newer version? These days Adobe Flash includes both versions and should be correct.

          Hi Sgunhouse,

          I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 32 bits and Opera Developer 44.0.2505.0

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          • novainc
            novainc last edited by

            Seems odd. Do youtube live streams play at all? Are they using the old or new player?

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              Seems odd. Do youtube live streams play at all? Are they using the old or new player?

              I don’t know, I have not seen a live on YouTube since long.

              I wanted to know what libraries Opera Developer uses, so I did a ldd /usr/bin/opera-developer | uniq | sort. Here is the result:

              libasn1.so.8 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasn1.so.8 (0xb5a21000)
              libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2 (0xb6d92000)
              libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb6e89000)
              libavahi-client.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libavahi-client.so.3 (0xb5eac000)
              libavahi-common.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libavahi-common.so.3 (0xb5ebe000)
              libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2 (0xb6018000)
              libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2 (0xb5d2c000)
              libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0xb62b7000)
              libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb583f000)
              libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb650b000)
              libcups.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcups.so.2 (0xb6d25000)
              libcurl.so.4 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4 (0xb7730000)
              libdatrie.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdatrie.so.1 (0xb5bb0000)
              libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 (0xb7167000)
              libdbus-glib-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 (0xb5fc6000)
              libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xb772b000)
              libexpat.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6eb9000)
              libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 (0xb61ee000)
              libffmpeg.so => not found
              libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb6f83000)
              libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb6ee2000)
              libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb66ba000)
              libgconf-2.so.4 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgconf-2.so.4 (0xb71b2000)
              libgcrypt.so.11 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xb5e20000)
              libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb7592000)
              libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb67c0000)
              libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xb7411000)
              libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb75be000)
              libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb771d000)
              libgnutls.so.26 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.26 (0xb5ecc000)
              libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb76ca000)
              libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb5b5b000)
              libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgraphite2.so.3 (0xb59af000)
              libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0xb6271000)
              libgssapi.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgssapi.so.3 (0xb5cc8000)
              libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb686f000)
              libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0xb5bb9000)
              libhcrypto.so.4 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libhcrypto.so.4 (0xb59ec000)
              libheimbase.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libheimbase.so.1 (0xb5977000)
              libheimntlm.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libheimntlm.so.0 (0xb5b4d000)
              libhx509.so.5 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libhx509.so.5 (0xb5930000)
              libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libidn.so.11 (0xb64d8000)
              libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libk5crypto.so.3 (0xb5d31000)
              libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkeyutils.so.1 (0xb5b56000)
              libkrb5.so.26 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.26 (0xb5ac7000)
              libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5.so.3 (0xb5d61000)
              libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libkrb5support.so.0 (0xb5d20000)
              liblber-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0xb6262000)
              libldap_r-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libldap_r-2.4.so.2 (0xb6210000)
              /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77d7000)
              libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xb6cdf000)
              libnotify.so.4 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnotify.so.4 (0xb75b6000)
              libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnspr4.so (0xb71e1000)
              libnss3.so => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss3.so (0xb7271000)
              libnssutil3.so => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnssutil3.so (0xb724a000)
              libp11-kit.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libp11-kit.so.0 (0xb5b60000)
              libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb73b6000)
              libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb7403000)
              libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6002000)
              libpcre.so.3 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0xb617a000)
              libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xb5c1f000)
              libplc4.so => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libplc4.so (0xb5ff2000)
              libplds4.so => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libplds4.so (0xb5fed000)
              libpng12.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 (0xb5f93000)
              libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xb779a000)
              libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0xb613f000)
              libroken.so.18 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libroken.so.18 (0xb59d5000)
              librtmp.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/librtmp.so.0 (0xb64bd000)
              librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xb7722000)
              libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsasl2.so.2 (0xb5d04000)
              libselinux.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1 (0xb6157000)
              libsmime3.so => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsmime3.so (0xb721f000)
              libsqlite3.so.0 => /home/yannick/apps/sqlite3/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb5870000)
              libssl.so.1.0.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0xb6464000)
              libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb66d7000)
              libtasn1.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtasn1.so.6 (0xb5b9c000)
              libthai.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthai.so.0 (0xb5ff8000)
              libwind.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libwind.so.0 (0xb5986000)
              libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0xb7033000)
              libX11-xcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0xb7030000)
              libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0xb5fc2000)
              libxcb-render.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb-render.so.0 (0xb5c11000)
              libxcb-shm.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0xb5c1b000)
              libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0xb700d000)
              libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xb7009000)
              libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb6ffe000)
              libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXdamage.so.1 (0xb6ffa000)
              libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb5fbb000)
              libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0xb6fe7000)
              libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb6fe0000)
              libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb5ea8000)
              libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXi.so.6 (0xb6fd0000)
              libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb6eaa000)
              libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 (0xb6fc5000)
              libXss.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXss.so.1 (0xb6eb5000)
              libXtst.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXtst.so.6 (0xb6fbe000)
              libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb61f5000)
              linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb77d6000)

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              • novainc
                novainc last edited by

                There doesn't appear to be a mention of npapi or flash packages. Did you file a bug report?

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  There doesn't appear to be a mention of npapi or flash packages. Did you file a bug report?

                  It does not appear clearly, because the listing layout was broken when posting, but look, there is a libffmpeg.so => not found. I suspect this missing library to be the cause. Surprisingly, I have a /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/opera-developer/libffmpeg.so.

                  I have a /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/opera-developer/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json too, which contains this:

                  [
                    "lib_extra/libffmpeg.so",
                    "/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so",
                    "/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so"
                  ]
                  

                  None of these exist.

                  Do I have to edit ffmpeg_preload_config.json?

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                  • novainc
                    novainc last edited by

                    That goes beyond my technical understanding, sorry. However, this is also affecting other users so I hope they will fix it soon.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Not only Flash still does not work in the last update (45.0.2531.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS x86; awesome), but worse: now even Youtube videos does not work anymore 😕

                      It's going worse and worse … (to say, as I said in another topic, even such a simple thing as collapsing the messenger panel does not work anymore since a previous update …)

                      If I have to open Firefox even for Youtube videos (there are YT videos in many places on the web), may be that means I should give up with Opera

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                      • kirov70
                        kirov70 last edited by

                        Well, unfortunately, I think it's time to part ways with Opera. I absolutely despise Flash and wish it would have died 10 years ago. However, it's still a part of the web and used across the board. The fact that I cannot get it to work is a sign that Opera is simply broken. I'm no stranger to and *nix variant, everything from kernel compiling to simple desktop user for nearly 20 years.

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