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Th3_uN1Qu3 · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 141 Location: Bucharest, Romania

Can you please tell me how can i install the Flash plugin for Opera? It works fine in SeaMonkey, but that browser is too slow, and i'm really used to Opera.

Thanks in advance and keep the good work going!

joki · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 79

puppy 2.16 has flash9 plugin in /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.0.8/plugins
opera will pick up and use seamonkey's plugins. unfortunately flash9+opera9+puppy is not working for me - if anyone manages to fix please tell!

flash7 does work and is fine for what i need. here's how:
get the flash7 libflash.so(?) from a previous puppy (eg 2.12) or maybe from adobe website. put it into opera's plugins folder
(eg /usr/local/opera/plugins). edit opera6.ini and replace all occur of /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.0.8/plugins/libflashplayer.so with /usr/local/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so (names not exact, get general gist)

there is a lot of talk of flash9 and linux most of it negative. opera+flash9 works on some other linux distros (apparently).
tbh sites requiring flash are bad imo, doubly bad if they insist on flash9 - esp when all the potential user base of Wii etc get online using opera. for this reason alone i think adobe is moving its butt (they didnt bother with a flash8 for linux)

Lobster · Posted: Tue 29 May 2007, 06:57 Post subject:

download http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Internet/FlashforOpera.pup
Test Flash Video at http://rhinoweb.us/

joki · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 79

Th3_uN1Qu3 · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 141 Location: Bucharest, Romania

I have installed that dotpup and it gave me a dialog in which had to confirm if the files were getting overwritten or not. So it WAS already installed.

I've checked the ini file, and, indeed, Opera recognizes the SeaMonkey plugins folder.

Of course, it still doesn't work. joki, can you give me a link to the flash 7 file please? Coz i don't want to spend hours looking for it on the web. Thanks in advance.

Lobster · Posted: Tue 29 May 2007, 22:10 Post subject:

Sorry the info was out of date - got it here
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/OperaBrowser

When you sort it, if you can, please update the info - many thanks

Smile

joki · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 79

the_unique, sorry not at home for a 2 days otherwise i'd post it here.

you can get flash7 from an older puppy,
for 2.12 it's /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.0.4/libflashplayer.so

To get: download the 2.12 iso (must be a site somewhere with old isos?),
use puppy's iso editor to extract the pup_212.sfs file to /root,
mount it eg "mount /root/pup_212.sfs /mnt/data -o loop",
copy the flash plugin to opera
eg "cp /mnt/data/usr/lib/seamonkey-1.0.4/libflashplayer.so /usr/local/opera/blahblahblah/plugins/"

edit opera6.ini as described, opera also has a plugins??.ini file you may need to edit (set to 0 the paths not needed)

lobster: i don't tend to be a big fan of .pup / .pet files. the opera tarball works straight from ftp.opera.com , uncompress it (opera 9.21 static qt is about 17MB uncompressed, if you have the correct qt installed download the shared qt which is ~ 13MB uncompressed)

the install.sh script is generally run then - not sure if this script is puppy-aware as i've never run it. what i do is:

unpack the tarball (creates a dir /xyz with all files in it),
create a symlink eg "ln -s /xyz /usr/local/opera",
edit the defaultbrowser icon's (picture of a blue globe) script
remove line exec mozstart "$@" and replace with
cd /usr/local/opera
exec /usr/local/opera/opera "$@"
(seamonkey can still be run from the program menu)
hope that helps

Th3_uN1Qu3 · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 141 Location: Bucharest, Romania

Unfortunately i haven't got enough hard drive space to copy the old ISO on the machine i'm currently running Puppy on, so i'll wait for you to get home, i'm not in a hurry. Wink

joki · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 79

ok here's flash7 (lifted from puppy 2.12) I've knocked up a quick .pup to install it into opera's plugins directory and to update opera6.ini with the path (assumes opera6.ini already has file associations for swf)

Script wont do anything if opera is running, if it's not installed somewhere under /usr, or if there's already a opera6.ini.bak file (backup copy of opera6.ini)
No error reporting. just go into opera after running and try youtube!

Th3_uN1Qu3 · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 141 Location: Bucharest, Romania

Nothing out of the ordinary, it doesn't work. Smile

fernan · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 372 Location: Buenos Aires

flash7opera9.pup worked for me, with a little trick:

I needed to RENAME (or delete) THE SEAMONKEY FLASHPLAYER PLUGIN. It seems that Opera was loading both plugins. But, in order to have Flash also working in SeaMonkey, I moved the libflashplayer.so (version 7) from the opera/plugins folder to the seamonkey-1.0.8/plugins folder. It seems that Opera looks in there, even if you have edited the opera6.ini file as explained before.

Regards.

Fernan

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1514 Location: florida

I don't think this is a puppy problem. As of a few months ago when I tried opera, flash 9 wasn't supported, just flash 7.

william7 · Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 71

In my case flash7 desn't work too...

vey · Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Oregon, USA