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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 12:34:32
Message-Id: 4FAFA938.8070905@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for Flash? by Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
1 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
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5 > On 10.05.2012 13:47, Dale wrote:
6 >> Hi,
7 >>
8 >> There was a thread a while back that talked about flash. Well, I
9 >> let mine upgrade and now it crashes, badly. I unmerged adobe-flash
10 >> then tried lightspark and gnash. Neither of those work on sites I
11 >> tried, which is sites I go to a good bit.
12 >>
13 >> Since Adobe is dropping Linux flash, that's what I read anyway,
14 >> what is everyone using for flash now?
15 >>
16 >> Things I tried so far:
17 >>
18 >> www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.18
19 >> www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.233
20 >> www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.235 gnash-0.8.10-r2
21 >> lightspark-0.5.6
22 >>
23 >> The version that worked last is:
24 >>
25 >> www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.1.102.55
26 >>
27 >> It's no longer in the tree of course. < sighs >
28 >>
29 >> Ideas?
30 >>
31 >> Dale
32 >>
33 >> P. S. I'm working on a overlay. Any guesses on how well this is
34 >> working out. lol
35 >>
36 > You should be able to install an old version via a custom overlay. The
37 > ebuild should be here:
38 >
39 > 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
40 >
41 > I would warn you to use it with caution since flash has a long history
42 > of vulnerabilities and normally it should be one of the last packages
43 > to keep a version from the stoneage (for flash it translates to "older
44 > that 2-26 weeks", normally).
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61
62 I tried to do the overlay thing. It hated me so it kept spitting out
63 errors about one thing or the other. I used the rm command to correct
64 the overlay issue. ;-)
65
66 I did get the current version to work tho. It was just my old eyes
67 missing a USE flag change.
68
69 Dale
70
71 :-) :-)
72
73 --
74 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
75 how you interpreted my words!
76
77 Miss the compile output? Hint:
78 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"