SteveOH

The following is a forum posting on ubuntuforum.com (here) which helped me out a lot.
I had nothing to do with writing it and have not checked it for correctness.  I have followed
the instructions and it worked for me, so I thought I’d share.  Thanks jouka!

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Guide: Opera 9.20 + Flash working in Feisty!

Hi, I like Opera a bit more than firefox (better mouse gestures IMO and takes a bit less memory when being open for a while with a lots of tabs opened) and thought that I could try to write clear instructions how I struggled to get Opera + flash (yeah to get those youtubes rolling) working in 64bit Feisty. It might be that some of these steps are not required but hey, so is not a marriage but still ppl do it. Wonder why.. Feisty is out! Enough of bs, so here we go:

1. Download Opera 9.20 static from http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl…++++&x=66&y=23 and do

sudo dpkg –force-architecture -i opera-static_9.20-20070409.1-qt_en_i386.deb

2. Then download http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/d…i386&type=main and do

sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture lesstif2_0.93.94-11.4ubuntu3_i386.deb

3. Then Download http://www.opera.com/download/linux/….30-5_i386.deb and do

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

4. Get Flash 9 from http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get…9_linux.tar.gz
extract it somewhere.. like aint no place like $home so there u go. Then go there and do

cd install_flash_player_9_linux/
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins
sudo cp flashplayer.xpt /usr/lib/opera/plugins

5. Some of these following packages are, and some are not required but what the hell, install them all.  So do

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

6. Get qt3 libs from: http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/poo…untu5_i386.deb and do

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

Now launch your awesome browser and go check out some por… news and stuff!

As default Ubuntu has no password set for the root user. To gain root access you have to type in your own user password. This is the password you set for the first user while installing Ubuntu.

To manually set a password for the root user, type in the following in the shell:

sudo passwd

After that you are asked to type in the new root password twice.

Then you’re good to go!