Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

flash doesn't install now

Bug #41442 reported by Paco Avila on 2006-04-26

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

I've just update my system with the new flashplugin-nonfree versión and now I can't view any flash. The plugin is not installed. I open firefox, go to "about:plugin" and no flash plugin is shown. The last flashplugin-nonfree version was right.

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Andreas Simon (andreas-w-simon) wrote on 2006-04-26:

Same, here the update-flashplugin script seems to be broken:

# update-flashplugin
automatic installation failed due to network problems or upstream changes
# wget -q http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
# update-flashplugin -l install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
cp: cannot stat `install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz': No such file or directory
cannot copy local file: install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
# update-flashplugin -l .
cp: cannot stat `./install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz': No such file or directory
cannot copy local file: ./install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
# ls -l ./install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1021258 2005-12-23 00:48 ./install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

This is with flashplugin-nonfree version 7.0.63.1-ubuntu2 on current Dapper Drake.

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote on 2006-04-26:

I can confirm this, and I shall attach a fix momentarily. The issue is that the download domain on has changed from download.macromedia.com to fpdownload.macromedia.com. Very easy to fix.