Sabayon64 and Flash

[spinflick]

Hello, as some of you know (hiya Mips) ;) I installed Sabayon 64 onto my pc a couple of days ago, but cannot get flash to work. Here is what I have done so far.....

emerge -av netscape-flash
emerge -av nsplugin
emerge -av jre

As you can see there is no ebuild for nsplugin and I dont know how to config the files, the emerge --help configure was useless or maybe it's just me.

[igknighted]

Hello, as some of you know (hiya Mips) ;) I installed Sabayon 64 onto my pc a couple of days ago, but cannot get flash to work. Here is what I have done so far.....

emerge -av netscape-flash
emerge -av nsplugin
emerge -av jre

As you can see there is no ebuild for nsplugin and I dont know how to config the files, the emerge --help configure was useless or maybe it's just me.

You can try searching in Kuroo, perhaps he had the package name wrong. I thought it was ndispluginwrapper myself, but I've never used it so i can't tell you what to do with it.

[spinflick]

The ndiswrapper is installed, and netscape-flash?

[mips]

You can try searching in Kuroo, perhaps he had the package name wrong. I thought it was ndispluginwrapper myself, but I've never used it so i can't tell you what to do with it.

A thanks.

It is actually called nspluginwrapper (not to be confused with the wireless ndis ones).
http://gentoo-portage.com/net-www/nspluginwrapper

If you can't find something then just do a emerge -s nsplug and it will list all packages starting with nsplug*. Sometimes mere morrtals like me make mistakes but if you seach you can find what we mean :)


But before you start that do the following to ensure you are up to date with portage & sabayon overlay (It's a good idea to do the first two steps often, the third might not be required if it is up to date):


layman -S
emerge --sync
emerge -v portage



The mini edition does NOT come with kernel sources. I would advise you to install them, it's not always required but I have needed them. Beware though as it takes LONG, so start it and go have a cup of tea.


/scripts/emerge-kernel.sh



Now do:


emerge -av netscape-flash
emerge -av nspluginwrapper
emerge -av jre


Sometimes after you have used emerge you are told that some config files need updating. To do this run:


etc-update

Select the config file to update by selecting its number. If I did not manually mess with the config file I simply select the option to overwrite the config file. Carry on with the next config file.

[spinflick]

Yippeeeee! it works, thank you Mips. From now on you shall be known as "The Amazing Mips" thanks again :)

[mips]

Glad to hear it's working.

Just one last thing, in Konqueror remember to go to the configuration and rescan for plugins under the plugins section.

[spinflick]

Thanks Mips just done it. :)

[LookTJ]

try this


emerge net-www/netscape-flash