Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree breaks package installation

Bug #139182 reported by Alexey Borzenkov on 2007-09-12

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

After successfully installing flashplugin-nonfree (after locally applying patch from bug #133452, though the same happens for vanilla flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.48.0.0ubuntu9_amd64) I found that dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree deletes essential files and breaks flash installation. Example:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
install: target `/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/' is not a directory: No such file or directory

After this I found that /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree is indeed gone and I have to reinstall. Don't really understand what's going on (and when the directory gets deleted) so can't offer a patch, sorry.

My system is gutsy/amd64.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/flashplugin-nonfree

Revision history for this message

Alexey Borzenkov (snaury) wrote on 2007-09-12:

dpkg-reconfigure-failure.patch Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain)

Daniel, are you sure that my bug is really a duplicate of bug #138853? To me it seems wrong. I have successfully installed (patched) package and it configures fine, the problem is actually with dpkg-reconfigure. Directory /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree gets deleted in prerm, but then it is _not_created_ again (so install fails). The quick fix is as follows:

diff -Nru /tmp/9lx1ZzfUtl/flashplugin-nonfree-9.0.48.0.0ubuntu9/debian/prerm /tmp/JnS0N6r0fq/flashplugin-nonfree-9.0.48.0.0ubuntu9dragonfox2/debian/prerm
--- /tmp/9lx1ZzfUtl/flashplugin-nonfree-9.0.48.0.0ubuntu9/debian/prerm 2007-09-11 12:28:09.000000000 +0400
+++ /tmp/JnS0N6r0fq/flashplugin-nonfree-9.0.48.0.0ubuntu9dragonfox2/debian/prerm 2007-09-12 23:34:41.000000000 +0400
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  upgrade|deconfigure)
   update-rc.d -f flashplugin-nonfree remove >/dev/null 2>&1
   rm -rf /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree-unpackdir
- rm -rf /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree
+ rm -f /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/*
   rm -f /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/*
   rm -f /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
   rm -f /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplayer.xpt

But I'm not sure if it's the right way. I don't understand where /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree is actually created in the first place! x_x

Revision history for this message

Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2007-09-13:

flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.48.0.0ubuntu10) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/dirs: add midbrowser dir to fix install (LP: #139255).
  * debian/postinst: use /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
    as alternative target on amd64 (LP: #133452).
  * debian/prerm: fix dpkg-reconfigure error - don't remove debhelper created
    directory in prerm (LP: #139182).
  * debian/prerm: --remove-all alternatives explicitly when this plugin was
    the last $X-flashplugin alternative.

-- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:50:12 +0200