Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash?

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 08:07:54AM +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 10 May 2012 12:47:51 Dale wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There was a thread a while back that talked about flash.  Well, I let
> > mine upgrade and now it crashes, badly.  I unmerged adobe-flash then
> > tried lightspark and gnash.  Neither of those work on sites I tried,
> > which is sites I go to a good bit.
> >
> > Since Adobe is dropping Linux flash, that's what I read anyway, what is
> > everyone using for flash now?
> >
> > Things I tried so far:
> >
> > www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.18
> > www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.233
> > www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.235
> > gnash-0.8.10-r2
> > lightspark-0.5.6
> >
> > The version that worked last is:
> >
> > www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.1.102.55
> >
> > It's no longer in the tree of course.  < sighs >
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> The latest stable www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.235 includes the sse2check
> flag and warnings about it - I take it that you have taken hid of these?
>
> $ euse -i sse2check
> global use flags (searching: sse2check)
> ************************************************************
> no matching entries found
>
> local use flags (searching: sse2check)
> ************************************************************
> [-      ] sse2check
>     www-plugins/adobe-flash: This flag, enabled by default, will check
>     for sse2 support on your cpu and die if not found. If you are
>     remote-building this package, you can disable this flag but you have
>     been warned
>               10.3.183.18 [gentoo]
>         [+ B] 11.2.202.228 [gentoo]
>         [+ B] 11.2.202.233 [gentoo]
>         [+ B] 11.2.202.235 [gentoo]
> --
> Regards,
> Mick


I usu just dl the linux flash glob from the Adobe site and put it in
.mozilla/.../plugins.

Terry