Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #326609
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 326609

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Jamie Lokier (jamie-shareable) wrote : Re: [Bug 326609] Re: [MASTER] No flash in firefox after upgrade from intrepid to jaunty

Tareeq Ali wrote:
> Ok I have had this issue, I tried both sudo apt-get remove --purge
> flashplugin-nonfree and without the --purge option, and then re-
> installed didn't work, tried purging again deleted the .deb file from
> /var/cache/apt/archive folder, and then tried sudo apt-get install
> flashplugin-nonfree. That did not work at all.
>
> I was finally able to solve the problem by downloading the adobe flash
> plugin (tar.gz) and copying the (.so) plugin to the
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.8/plugin folder.
>
> the flashplugin-nonfree deb installer does not give any errors, apt does
> not give any errors.....

You might have needed to "apt-get remove --purge
flashplugin-installer" as well, before trying to install
flashplugin-nonfree. That worked for me, and it's
flashplugin-installer which shows the "cannot connect to network
error" during upgrade.

-- Jamie