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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 03:06:43
Message-Id: 4FAF24D8.1080706@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash? by ny6p01@gmail.com
1 ny6p01@×××××.com wrote:
2 > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 08:07:54AM +0100, Mick wrote:
3 >> On Thursday 10 May 2012 12:47:51 Dale wrote:
4 >>> Hi,
5 >>>
6 >>> There was a thread a while back that talked about flash. Well, I let
7 >>> mine upgrade and now it crashes, badly. I unmerged adobe-flash then
8 >>> tried lightspark and gnash. Neither of those work on sites I tried,
9 >>> which is sites I go to a good bit.
10 >>>
11 >>> Since Adobe is dropping Linux flash, that's what I read anyway, what is
12 >>> everyone using for flash now?
13 >>>
14 >>> Things I tried so far:
15 >>>
16 >>> www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.18
17 >>> www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.233
18 >>> www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.235
19 >>> gnash-0.8.10-r2
20 >>> lightspark-0.5.6
21 >>>
22 >>> The version that worked last is:
23 >>>
24 >>> www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.1.102.55
25 >>>
26 >>> It's no longer in the tree of course. < sighs >
27 >>>
28 >>> Ideas?
29 >>
30 >> The latest stable www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.235 includes the sse2check
31 >> flag and warnings about it - I take it that you have taken hid of these?
32 >>
33 >> $ euse -i sse2check
34 >> global use flags (searching: sse2check)
35 >> ************************************************************
36 >> no matching entries found
37 >>
38 >> local use flags (searching: sse2check)
39 >> ************************************************************
40 >> [- ] sse2check
41 >> www-plugins/adobe-flash: This flag, enabled by default, will check
42 >> for sse2 support on your cpu and die if not found. If you are
43 >> remote-building this package, you can disable this flag but you have
44 >> been warned
45 >> 10.3.183.18 [gentoo]
46 >> [+ B] 11.2.202.228 [gentoo]
47 >> [+ B] 11.2.202.233 [gentoo]
48 >> [+ B] 11.2.202.235 [gentoo]
49 >> --
50 >> Regards,
51 >> Mick
52 >
53 >
54 > I usu just dl the linux flash glob from the Adobe site and put it in
55 > .mozilla/.../plugins.
56 >
57 > Terry
58
59
60 But if you do that, portage won't update it or anything else outside
61 portage. I VERY rarely install anything outside of portage. Right now,
62 I have nothing installed on my system that is not taken care of by
63 portage. I keep it that way to make sure everything is updated and
64 bugs/fixes are taken care of even I forget.
65
66 Dale
67
68 :-) :-)
69
70 --
71 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
72 how you interpreted my words!
73
74 Miss the compile output? Hint:
75 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"