Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

flashplugin-nonfree installs everything except the plugin itself

Bug #126590 reported by Robert Persson
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
Mozilla Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

In feisty, flashplugin-nonfree installs documentation, symlinks, directories etc., but not the actual plugin itself.

This looks like a regression to #77116 and #50284, because I was able to watch embedded flash content 2 or 3 weeks ago, but I'm not able to do so any more.

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Denilson Sá (denilsonsa) wrote :

Yes, I can confirm that. This happens because recently a new flashplayer version has been released. Gentoo already uses the new version.

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Denilson Sá (denilsonsa) wrote :

Sorry, I said Gentoo has resolved that, but in fact they are still trying to solve that. See:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185141
The main reason is upstream changing the tarball without changing its name. Maybe people from Ubuntu and Gentoo could look at this issue together, because that's a common problem for both distros (and probably also Debian and others).

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Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9) wrote :

Seems confirmed via user comments, thought I think this is a dup of another bug.

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
status: New → Confirmed
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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Please dont mark confirmed until we have all info needed. What version of flash? are you getting md5sum errors when trying to install? other than flash not playing what else makes you think the plugins are not installing?

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

the gentoo link you gave is the same issue that bug #125986 fixes as its upstream CVE change. Ive been gone for a week so i havent gotten to look in feisty to see if it was pushed to security repo or if still in -proposed

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