From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSwr6-0000Sr-To for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:45:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 218C3E0DC4; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04CD6E0DC4 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0L4O00MWNS2ON980@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:44:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:44:09 -0400 From: dhk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Flash (10.1.53.64) Not Working In-reply-to: <201006271704.09144.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4C279BF9.5000409@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 References: <4C2768FA.4070601@optonline.net> <201006271600.04836.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <201006271704.09144.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100625 Thunderbird/3.0.5 X-Archives-Salt: 916b341d-54c8-4e65-ac45-0645b152e455 X-Archives-Hash: 27c97765a9131f767b9a0f1e2e923f3a On 06/27/2010 12:03 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2010 16:00:04 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: >> On Sunday 27 June 2010, dhk wrote: >>> Adobe Flash use to work on my amd64 box, but after the last upgrade it >>> stopped working. When I visit sites that use it I'm told that Adobe >>> Flash is not installed or to download the plugin. >>> >>> In my /etc/make.conf I had to change ACCEPT_LICENSE to >>> ACCEPT_LICENSE="AdobeFlash-10.1" and in /etc/portage/package.keywords I >>> removed www-plugins/adobe-flash ~amd64 since it wasn't needed anymore. >>> >>> The following is what's installed. >>> >>> # emerge --search @www-plugins/adobe-flash >>> Searching... >>> [ Results for search key : www-plugins/adobe-flash ] >>> [ Applications found : 1 ] >>> >>> * www-plugins/adobe-flash >>> >>> Latest version available: 10.1.53.64 >>> Latest version installed: 10.1.53.64 >>> Size of files: 4,643 kB >>> Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/ >>> Description: Adobe Flash Player >>> License: AdobeFlash-10.1 >> >> Read the fine installation notes, which should have been printed after you >> emerged it: >> >> Adobe has released 10.1 in only a 32-bit version and upgrading >> is required to close a major security vulnerability: >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/322855 >> >> Furthermore, there are stability problems when running 10.1 in a >> 64-bit browser with nspluginwrapper. The current recommended >> configuration is to use a 32-bit browser such as >> www-client/firefox-bin: >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/324365 > > Or just reinstall nsplugginwrapper and restart your FF. That's what I did > (search this list for thread titled: www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't > play in FF & Konqueror). > > HTH. That worked. Thanks, --dhk