Flash player

Flash is a technology used to embed scripts into webpages, often for graphical effects. Adobe, the company who owns the original Flash interpreter, has released Flash players for Linux, but there are also FOSS players available.

Swfdec
is a library which supports most features available in Flash 7, and also a subset of Flash 9. It plays youtube, and some other Flash video applications, without any serious issues. To use it with your browser, you'll likely also need. You can use it standalone using.

Gnash
Gnash is an open source flash player/plugin with support for most SWF version 7 features and some compatibility with SWF versions up to 10 (current). Gnash supports Chrome, Konqueror, Firefox and all other Gecko based browsers. To build the browser plugin, enable the USE flag and emerge gnash:

Adobe Flash
For use with Chromium, emerge chrome-binary-plugins. It is a live ebuild, so you'll need to keyword un-mask it first.

Abobe Flash Player is the original, proprietary flash player. Emerge it with:

This ebuild was formerly named. So if you can't find try running. This change happened around April 2009.

Issues related:
 * If you find it was masked, please add these following lines to the /etc/portage/package.license file:


 * For amd64 users who would like to use 32bit plugins in firefox or something else, please run:

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