HELP: about adobe-flash and masked packages problem

zhonyong · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2010 Posts: 16

firefox can not download adobe-flash. alway FAIL. and i find there is a www-plugins/adobe-flash in portage (in my /usr/portage/www-plugins/adobe-flash), so i try this following emerge .. and get the same masked package problem, which i am trying to fix this afternoon.

# emerge www-plugins/adobe-flash
Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "www-plugins/adobe-flash" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.2.161.23_pre20100927 (masked by: AdobeFlash-10.1 license(s), ~x86 keyword)
A copy of the 'AdobeFlash-10.1' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/AdobeFlash-10.1'.

- www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.85.3 (masked by: AdobeFlash-10.1 license(s))
- www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.283.0 (masked by: AdobeFlash-9.0.31.0 license(s), ~x86 keyword)
A copy of the 'AdobeFlash-9.0.31.0' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/AdobeFlash-9.0.31.0'.

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because i am a new gentoo user. so i am trying to use layman, and i have done all these steps according to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml (Gentoo Overlays: Users' Guide),

and my layman version is 1.3.3 so i install all of these in /var/lib/layman

still i can not emerge packages from gentoo-china. although i have done this command : laymen -f -a gentoo-china

Please help me, and tell me what can i do? Thanks

pross · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:42 am Post subject:

you have to add the license file:

echo "www-plugins/adobe-flash AdobeFlash-10.1" >> /etc/portage/package.license
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zhonyong · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2010 Posts: 16

Thank you. and i have fixed this problem!`

Mod Edit: split from the report post and merged here, looks like you pressed the report button instead of reply - tomk

gerard27 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject:

If you're running 64 bit then after emergeing flash you'll have to emerge nspluginwrapper.
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kite14 · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 216 Location: Italy

@Gerard

There is no need to install nspluginwrapper (on 64bit installations), since recently Adobe has released the new 64bit native plugin for Linux (code named "Square").
This release is already in portage (in testing branch, so you have to unmask it); see this thread for reference

Adobe announcement page → http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

gerard27 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject:

@kite14,
You're right,wasn't aware of it.
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1clue · Advocate Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 2569

1clue · Advocate Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 2569

Just installed the masked adobe-flash 10.2.161.23_pre20100927, then removed nspluginwrapper. It seems to work fine on amd64, and makes me feel like my box isn't a 486 anymore.

Just in case anyone was wondering or on the borderline, I vote yes.