How does one go about doing this?
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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
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BTW, the latest build can be found at snapshot.opera.com/unix/awesome_11.00-1094 Nov 18, 2010 at 2:48
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I do not have the said file, what now? and I do have the latest build.– TheXedNov 18, 2010 at 2:48
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you didn't say anything about making sure I had flashplugin-installer package installed orginally...– TheXedNov 18, 2010 at 3:02