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On Sunday 27 June 2010, dhk wrote: |
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> Adobe Flash use to work on my amd64 box, but after the last upgrade it |
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> stopped working. When I visit sites that use it I'm told that Adobe |
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> Flash is not installed or to download the plugin. |
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> In my /etc/make.conf I had to change ACCEPT_LICENSE to |
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> ACCEPT_LICENSE="AdobeFlash-10.1" and in /etc/portage/package.keywords I |
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> removed www-plugins/adobe-flash ~amd64 since it wasn't needed anymore. |
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> The following is what's installed. |
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> |
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> # emerge --search @www-plugins/adobe-flash |
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> Searching... |
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> [ Results for search key : www-plugins/adobe-flash ] |
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> [ Applications found : 1 ] |
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> |
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> * www-plugins/adobe-flash |
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> Latest version available: 10.1.53.64 |
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> Latest version installed: 10.1.53.64 |
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> Size of files: 4,643 kB |
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> Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/ |
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> Description: Adobe Flash Player |
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> License: AdobeFlash-10.1 |
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Read the fine installation notes, which should have been printed after you |
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emerged it: |
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Adobe has released 10.1 in only a 32-bit version and upgrading |
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is required to close a major security vulnerability: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/322855 |
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Furthermore, there are stability problems when running 10.1 in a |
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64-bit browser with nspluginwrapper. The current recommended |
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configuration is to use a 32-bit browser such as |
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www-client/firefox-bin: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/324365 |
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