I am testing the new Opera 11, but it keeps telling me I need to install flash player

Question

How does one go about doing this?

Answer 1

Opera will grab the plugin from /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so, which is the default location for the flash shared object installed by flashplugin-installer package. So make sure you have both.

If you don't have them, then install the package with:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

If you have flashplugin-installer package and the file mentioned above, but it still doesn't work, then you could try to copy the plugin shared object to ~/.opera/plugins with the following command:

cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so ~/.opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Also check if you don't have any old version being detected by Opera and disable it. You can do that from opera:plugins page.

For other video types you will need gecko-mediaplayer, which is the only media plugin that works with Opera.

sudo apt-get gecko-mediaplayer