Is Opera Developer on Linux supposed to support Flash Player?

A Former User

Hi,

Just wanted to know if Opera Developer on Linux is supposed to support Flash Player. Since a long time, Opera does not play Flash video anymore and I have to open Firefox each time I land on a page with a Flash video.

I though it may be a bug which will go away, but as Opera Developer versions goes, it's still the same, so I wonder if Flash is still supposed to be supported in Opera Developer.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

Do you have the PPAPI version of Flash? Firefox uses the NPAPI version, but Chromium-based browsers don't.

A Former User

Do you have the PPAPI version of Flash? Firefox uses the NPAPI version, but Chromium-based browsers don't.

Hi,

Thanks for the answer.

I searched the web. It seems the PPAPI is provided by Pepper Flash Player, which is installed (version 1.3 on Ubuntu 14.04 32 bits). I followed this page, which suggests additional steps, but it still don't work : http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/06/install-pepper-flash-chromium-ubuntu-14-04

sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install terminates with the exit code 100, which suggests an error and I can't edit an /etc/chromium-browser/default which does not exist (there is no /etc/chromium-browser/ directory neither).

novainc

novainc

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.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

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

A Former User

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.

A Former User

@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

novainc

novainc

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

A Former User

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)

novainc

novainc

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

A Former User

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?

novainc

novainc

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

A Former User

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

kirov70

kirov70

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.