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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 12:18:02
Message-Id: 4FAFA59E.10807@fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash? by Dale
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4 On 10.05.2012 13:47, Dale wrote:
5 > Hi,
6 >
7 > There was a thread a while back that talked about flash. Well, I
8 > let mine upgrade and now it crashes, badly. I unmerged adobe-flash
9 > then tried lightspark and gnash. Neither of those work on sites I
10 > tried, which is sites I go to a good bit.
11 >
12 > Since Adobe is dropping Linux flash, that's what I read anyway,
13 > what is everyone using for flash now?
14 >
15 > Things I tried so far:
16 >
17 > www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.18
18 > www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.233
19 > www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.235 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 > Dale
31 >
32 > P. S. I'm working on a overlay. Any guesses on how well this is
33 > working out. lol
34 >
35 You should be able to install an old version via a custom overlay. The
36 ebuild should be here:
37
38 http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-plugins/adobe-flash/adobe-flash-11.1.102.55.ebuild?hideattic=0&view=log
39
40 I would warn you to use it with caution since flash has a long history
41 of vulnerabilities and normally it should be one of the last packages
42 to keep a version from the stoneage (for flash it translates to "older
43 that 2-26 weeks", normally).
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Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>