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Gentoo: Installing Flash for Firefox good 8 bad 7

A new installation of Gentoo will typically not include a Flash plugin for your browser. I'm using Firefox. If you go to a site that has Flash content, Firefox asks you if you want to install the needed plugin. Clicking through, you get to the Adobe site, where you can download a *.gz file. Unfortunately, unpacking this file and following the instructions may not provide you with a working Flash player within Firefox.

This led me to search for a flash player using Gentoo's emerge --search option. Executing: 

emerge -s flash

returned a list of applications that included net-www/netscape-flash: 

*  net-www/netscape-flash
      Latest version available: 10.0.22.87
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 8,747 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.adobe.com/
      Description:   Adobe Flash Player
      License:       AdobeFlash-10

That indeed sounded like what I was looking for.

So, I "emerged" the application: 

emerge net-www/netscape-flash

restarted Firefox, and: Voila! I now have a working Flash player in Firefox on Gentoo Linux.



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