[Solved] Problem installing Adobe Flash

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mark2 · Post by **mark2** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:53 pm

I know somewhere this must have been answered, but I haven't found it, so I apologize if I'm duplicating a similar problem.

I get emails from a blues guitar instructor with links to lessons he provides through video. He must use a different player on some of them because I can view them. But in others I get a message to install Adobe Flash Player or use a browser that provides native H.264 support. I use Firefox version 10.0.5. I know that version 13 exists also, but this version is what portage installed. I'll try to figure that one out later.

Anyway, here is the message I get trying to emerge adobe-flash:

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Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "adobe-flash" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.236::gentoo (masked by: AdobeFlash-10.3 license(s))
A copy of the 'AdobeFlash-10.3' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/AdobeFlash-10.3'.

- www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.18::gentoo (masked by: AdobeFlash-10.3 license(s), ~amd64 keyword)

I tried to find info on how to unmask, but when I did:

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echo "www-plugins/adobe-flash" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask

I got the same error. I'm just not sure how to use the commands that I read in the emerge manual on the Masked Packages section.

Any advice?

~Mark

Thistled · Post by **Thistled** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:05 pm

Hey Mark

It's masked by "Licence" that is what portage is telling you.
So you have to make sure the following is in /etc/make.conf

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ACCEPT_LICENSE="AdobeFlash-10.3"

mark2 · Post by **mark2** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:19 pm

Thistle,

Thanks!

That worked; it installed www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.136. Now I'm guessing I have to exit the browser and then go back in for the change to take effect. It still gave the same error message, but I'm hoping restarting the browser will help.

Regards,
~Mark

mark2 · Post by **mark2** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:21 pm

Yes. That worked perfectly. Thanks again, Thistle.

~Mark

Thistled · Post by **Thistled** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:25 pm

No worries man.

Pleasure.

mark2 · Post by **mark2** » Mon May 06, 2013 5:10 pm

Coming back to a slightly newer situation. A while back my system crashed and the hard drive was unrecoverable. So now I've started anew, gotten back to a gui and have run into actually 2 problems. The first of which is being unable to install Adobe Flash 11.2.202.280. The second is that when I installed Firefox I ended up with Aurora (which is not so bad - I may be able to live with it). I have tried the License thing with Flash, but that did not work. I tried to add

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www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.280

but that gave back an error about an invalid atom.

Any ideas?

~Mark

GFCCAE6xF · Post by **GFCCAE6xF** » Mon May 06, 2013 5:32 pm

You don't need to version the line, just;
www-plugins/adobe-flash AdobeFlash-11.x

Edit: Just to clarify, add that line to /etc/portage/package.license

As for the name you probably have the branding flag disabled, judging from eix output I see... you need to have bindist disabled - which seems to be the default.

mark2 · Post by **mark2** » Tue May 07, 2013 1:01 pm

Rorgoroth,

Thanks, That seems to have worked.

Regards,
~Mark