[Solved] Problem installing Adobe Flash

mark2 · Last edited by mark2 on Tue May 07, 2013 1:00 pm; edited 3 times in total

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:

Thistled · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 572 Location: Scotland

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

mark2 · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:19 pm Post subject:

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
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mark2 · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:21 pm Post subject:

Yes. That worked perfectly. Thanks again, Thistle.

~Mark
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Thistled · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 572 Location: Scotland

No worries man.

Pleasure.

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mark2 · www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.280

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

GFCCAE6xF · Apprentice Joined: 06 Aug 2012 Posts: 295

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 · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 1:01 pm Post subject:

Rorgoroth,

Thanks, That seems to have worked.

Regards,
~Mark
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