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int86
12-03-2007, 10:51 AM
Recently I moved to Ubuntu, and felt parted with Opera as many plugins were missing.
Though many plugins were easy to find and install. Installing flash was not so easy for me. But I found a easy way though.

At first I downloaded Flash plugins for default browser FF. Instruction and plugins can be dwonloaded from following link:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash


Then simply running following two commands makes life easier.

su

cp /home/XXXX/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins



Where XXXX is your login user ID.



I think I may get my first rep here

mehulved
12-03-2007, 11:56 AM
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Linux way is a lot more elegant than windows way.

int86
12-03-2007, 12:26 PM
Got this error message Mehul

Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

desertwind
12-03-2007, 12:37 PM
most probably you're using some other package management software


is there any isntance of apt-get, synaptic or dpkg open ?

freebird
12-03-2007, 05:25 PM
some other apt/dpkg processes is creating problems.just close ur synaptic pkg manager.or gdebi.
else ~$sudo killall dpkg