Ubuntu 64-bit, Opera and flash

Finally flash seems to become something normal on Linux, and supported by most distributions. At the moment Adobe only has a flash-player for 32-bit Linux, but luckily it can also be used in a 64-bit installation using nspluginwrapper. Installing flash for Firefox is simple in Ubuntu: open Synaptic, search for flashplugin-nonfree and install it. This installs the flash-plugin, as well as nspluginwrapper for 64-bit installations. For Opera, it is a bit more work: download the plugin from the Adobe website and put it in the plugins directory. Here follow the instructions to get flash working in Opera 64-bit.

1. Go to the Adobe flashplayer download website and select the .tar.gz for Linux option. This will download the archive; we are only interested in extracting one single file. (Do not download the .deb!)

2. Extract the files from the archive.
$> tar -zxf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

3. At this point we have to copy the plugin file to the correct directory where Opera can find it.
$> cd install_flash_player_10_linux
$> sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/opera/plugins

4. Start opera and go to YouTube where you can test your newly installed flashplayer.

You can now safely delete the directory where you extracted the archive (install_flash_player_10_linux/).