Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

Running command: sudo update-flashplugin Gives result: automatic installation failed due to network problems or upstream changes

Bug #62060 reported by fubadubrub on 2006-09-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #50284: [has patch] flashplugin-nonfree does not install. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

I installed flashplugin-nonfree version 7.0.63.3ubuntu3 via Synaptic. In the pop up dialog in Synaptic for the flash plugin I clicked yes to allow downloading the plugin. Then following the instructions located at Gnome menu: System>Help>System Documentation I proceeded to use the command: sudo update-flashplugin

This always spits out the result: automatic installation failed due to network problems or upstream changes

Internet connection is working. I am trying to install the Firefox Flash plugin on Dapper 6.0.6.1. Please note that I do not use Backports on this particular Dapper installation and am not interested in using Backports for flash. Any help or explanation would be appreciated.

Saturday, September 23
10:11 AM, Pacific time USA

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Bart Martens (bartm) wrote on 2006-09-24:

Maybe your problem can be fixed by coding these MD5 checksums in the update-flashplugin script:

a18532c8457f1140964c4d896a928c96 install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
a81fd3b03b8c6d6e5a14298110718d3f install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt
e06131e32a0aa171b8c7965acbf6e6d9 install_flash_player_7_linux/libflashplayer.so

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fubadubrub (fubadubrub) wrote on 2006-09-24:

I simply replaced the script's MD5 checksums with the ones you provided.

Quote
a18532c8457f1140964c4d896a928c96 install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
a81fd3b03b8c6d6e5a14298110718d3f install_flash_player_7_linux/flashplayer.xpt
e06131e32a0aa171b8c7965acbf6e6d9 install_flash_player_7_linux/libflashplayer.so
Unquote

This did not work. I checked the URL for the downloads and this is what I got using Firefox:

Works
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com.edgekey.net/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

Did not work
http://e526.d.akamaiedge.net/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
http://fpdownload-marc.wip3.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
http://84.53.150.70/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

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Xirtam (xirtam1985) wrote on 2006-10-03:

I can confirm the problem and I solved it by simply adding some FAIL="false" into /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin.

But the package maintainer should add a fixed package so that all users can install flash easily.

The backport version couldnt be installed on my platform too

Im using Dapper with all updates

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted universe multiverse