ewald.tienkamp.nl » upgrade http://ewald.tienkamp.nl Gentoo Linux and whatever else I think needs to be shot into cyberspace. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:39:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Gentoo blocker: AdobeFlash-10.1 license http://ewald.tienkamp.nl/2010/06/21/gentoo-blocker-adobeflash-10-1-license/ http://ewald.tienkamp.nl/2010/06/21/gentoo-blocker-adobeflash-10-1-license/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:32:53 +0000 Ewald http://ewald.tienkamp.nl/?p=164 Lately, my Adobe Flash on Gentoo amd64 complained about being blocked by the Adobe Flash 10.0 license and since yesterday the 10.1 one. Blocked by a license? Had never seen that before…

As of yesterday, emerge -uDN world spits out the following for me:
!!! The following updates are masked by LICENSE changes:
- www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 (masked by: AdobeFlash-10.1 license(s))
A copy of the 'AdobeFlash-10.1' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/AdobeFlash-10.1'.
!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.45.2 (masked by: AdobeFlash-10 license(s))
A copy of the 'AdobeFlash-10' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/AdobeFlash-10'.

Now I could have looked into the 10.0 error, but hey, it was already installed, so who cares. I could have also paid attention to the notice below the block telling me to look into “the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook“. I just couldn’t be bothered. But, since 10.1 popped up, I resorted to searching the web in hopes of finding a quick and easy way to solve this blocker.

Turns out that just yesterday, the Spanish GFO presented the correct way to fix this. You can simply create the file /etc/portage/package.license and add a line that accepts the AdobeFlash-10.1 license for the Adobe Flash package in portage:
echo "www-plugins/adobe-flash AdobeFlash-10.1" >> /etc/portage/package.license

Just add the line with the command above and rerun emerge -uDN world to upgrade Adobe Flash.

Update Jun 21, 2010 @ 14:00: You will, however, need the nspluginwrapper package to use Adobe Flash in a 64-bit browser. Also note this bugreport in special and the other bugreports in general.

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Searching around for this error did not provide me with many easy to apply solutions. I found quite a few forumposts and a Mozilla Dev page on this specific error.

In this case, the forumposts lead me to the rather easy solution: if, when using Gentoo, you encounter a problem with dependencies, simply run revdep-rebuild:
revdep-rebuild -p
In this case, nss turned out to be the culprit and after a remerge (rerun revdep-rebuild without the -p flag) Firefox 3.5 would load as expected.

If you happen to find this page, but are not a Gentoo, but a different Linux or even a Windows or Mac OSX user, try some of the suggestions suitable for your OS, found in the Mozilla Developers Center.

[edit]28 July: according to the visitor numbers, I’m not the only one to experience this error. If people want to let me know whether this did or did not solve the issue for them, leave a comment below.[/edit]

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