flashplugin-installer can't find adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.233.orig.tar.gz

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

The following command silently fails to install the adobe flash plugin.

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/8408 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 167772 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.233ubuntu2 (using .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.233ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-installer ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.233.orig.tar.gz
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.233ubuntu2) ...

If I use wget to try and download adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.233.orig.tar.gz I get a 404 error.

[Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder)]

This happens typically if your package index files are not up to date. I have the feeling that flashplugin-installer is particular sensitive to this issue, maybe because the code is dowloaded from a different site or just because it used to be updated more often than many other packages.

Can you reproduce this after running "sudo apt-get update"?

P.S. Why did you want to do a reinstall? Did flash just stop working for you? I was bitten by this problem several times recently, that's why I'm browsing here. I used remove & install, not sure whether --reinstall is equivalent. But we should handle this in a separate report, several issues in the same report are bad practice.

[Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd)]

Uwe Geuder wrote:

> This happens typically if your package index files are not up to date. I
> have the feeling that flashplugin-installer is particular sensitive to
> this issue, maybe because the code is dowloaded from a different site or
> just because it used to be updated more often than many other packages.
>
> Can you reproduce this after running "sudo apt-get update"?

Actually the problem turned out to be that I didn't have precise-updates
and precise-backports missings from sources.list.

> P.S. Why did you want to do a reinstall? Did flash just stop working for
> you?

It was never installed to begin with, because without p-updates and p-backports
the installer pointed to a old version of the plugin which was missing
from the download site.

The biggest problem is that the flash install fails silently.

Erik
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[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 1026858
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

Also: can you please check if your machine is behind a proxy? This seems to happen when the connection to Internet is done through a proxy, and "dpkg" seem to not detect adequately the proxy at least for downloading this file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Derek White (d-man97)]

The file IS missing. 404.