How to get Flash working in Opera 9.20 in ubuntu

Opera is a cross-platform web browser and Internet suite which handles common internet-related tasks including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting online and displaying Widgets. Opera’s lightweight mobile web browser Opera Mini and most current versions of its desktop application are offered free of charge.



Install Opera web Browser in Ubuntu

Download Opera 9.20 from here

Now you should have opera-static_9.20-20070409.1-qt_en_i386.deb package you need to install using the following command
      sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i opera-static_9.20-20070409.1-qt_en_i386.deb


Now you need to download lesstif from here and install this package using the following command

           sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture lesstif2_0.93.94-11.4ubuntu3_i386.deb
Now you need to download openmotif from here and install this package using the following command

              sudo dpkg -i --force-all openmotif_2.1.30-5_i386.deb

Now you need to install Flash9 from here

Now you need to extract this file using the following comand

        sudo tar xzvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

Now you need to go in to the install_flash_player_9_linux directory

            cd install_flash_player_9_linux/

           sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins

           sudo cp flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib/opera/plugins

Now you need to install following packages

sudo aptitude install ia32-libs ia32-libs-sdl ia32-sun-java5-bin ia32-libs-gtk flashplugin-nonfree sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-jre


Now you need to install Get qt3 libs download qt3 libs from here and install this package using the following comamnd

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture libqt3-mt_3.3.8really3.3.7-0ubuntu5_i386.deb

Now you can launch your opera webbrowser and enjoy your news,programs etc

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