flashplugin-installer does not honor proxy settings

[marcobra (Marco Braida)]

Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

flashplugin-installer:
  Installato: 11.2.202.238ubuntu1
  Candidato: 11.2.202.238ubuntu1
  Tabella versione:
 *** 11.2.202.238ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/multiverse i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

i'm behind a corporate proxy i can download with wget, curl and other stuffs but the plugin flashplugin-nonfree do not traverse my proxy... gui install mode and also this using terminal commands:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

nor with

sudo -E apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

my env: "env | grep -i proxy"

http_proxy=http://192.168.100.59:3128/
ftp_proxy=ftp://192.168.100.59:3128/
socks_proxy=socks://192.168.100.59:3128/
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=
https_proxy=https://192.168.100.59:3128/

Also i have the proxy values correctly set into /etc/apt/apt.conf to traverse the proxy for the debs...

also set into /etc/sudoers
Defaults env_reset
Defaults env_keep="http_proxy https_proxy"

Available workaround:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1098233

Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.238ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 16 18:16:30 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-07-02 (45 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[cleary (bernard-gray)]

This is also affecting trusty flashplugin-installer=11.2.202.332ubuntu1

==========================================
Workaround: Set a local file in debconf

$ sudo apt-get install debconf-utils

$ cd /path/to/plugin/folder/ ; wget -c http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.332.orig.tar.gz

$ sudo -s
# echo flashplugin-installer flashplugin-installer/local string /path/to/plugin/folder/ | debconf-set-selections
# apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer
# exit

==========================================
Diagnostic output:

$ grep proxy /etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://user:pass@proxy1:3128";

$ grep proxy /etc/environment
http_proxy=http://user:pass@proxy1:3128
https_proxy=http://user:pass@proxy1:3128
export http_proxy https_proxy

$ grep proxy /etc/wgetrc
http_proxy = http://user:pass@proxy1:3128/
https_proxy = http://user:pass@proxy1:3128/
# If you do not want to use proxy at all, set this to off.
use_proxy = on

$ sudo grep proxy -B1 /etc/sudoers
Defaults env_reset
Defaults env_keep="http_proxy"

$ sudo echo $http_proxy
http://user:pass@proxy1:3128

$ wget -c http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.332.orig.tar.gz
--2013-12-16 14:53:37-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.332.orig.tar.gz
Resolving proxy1 (proxy1)... 10.10.3.137
Connecting to proxy1 (proxy1)|10.10.3.137|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14136904 (13M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: 'adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.332.orig.tar.gz’

100%[======================================================================>] 14,136,904 504KB/s in 20s

2013-12-16 14:53:58 (700 KB/s) - 'adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.332.orig.tar.gz’ saved [14136904/14136904]

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'flashplugin-installer' instead of 'flashplugin-nonfree'
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/6,832 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 241937 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.332ubuntu1 (using .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.332ubuntu1_amd64.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_11.2.202.332.orig.tar.gz
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 235, in process_download_requests
    dest_file = urllib.urlretrieve(files[i])[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 94, in urlretrieve
    return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 240, in retrieve
    fp = self.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 208, in...

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

It seems that flashplugin-installer is not needed any more. So one can safely:

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer

sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

Walter,

adobe-flashplugin is only available in the Canonical "partner" repository, which is not enabled per default, and should not be required to install Adobe Flash. The flashplugin-installer package is still very much needed as a solution that can reside within the regular Ubuntu repositories.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thanks Daniel, I just wrote this comment because I was told that "flashplugin-installer is a historic thing, you should be able to install adobe-flashplugin from partner archive without any problems".

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

Hi

Is multiverse (where flashplugin-installer resides) enabled by default?

Regards,
Jan

On 9 January 2014 18:51, Daniel Richard G. <email address hidden> wrote:

> Walter,
>
> adobe-flashplugin is only available in the Canonical "partner"
> repository, which is not enabled per default, and should not be required
> to install Adobe Flash. The flashplugin-installer package is still very
> much needed as a solution that can reside within the regular Ubuntu
> repositories.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1098233).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1037662
>
> Title:
> flashplugin-installer does not honor proxy settings
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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[cleary (bernard-gray)]

Hi Walter,
Thanks for the info, unfortunately it's still not available for trusty yet, but the flashplugin-installer has been available pretty much since the repo came online.

Therefore I'd argue that flashplugin-installer is in fact still required since the partners aren't really holding up their end for the coming releases.

[Michel-Ekimia (michel.ekimia)]

Humm, are you sure that you're proxy is not rejecting non classic user agents ? try with wget.

[Jan Groenewald (jan-aims)]

Also try adobe-flashplugin from partner rather than flashplugin-installer.

On 25 April 2014 11:13, Ekimia <email address hidden> wrote:

> Humm, are you sure that you're proxy is not rejecting non classic user
> agents ? try with wget.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1098233).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1037662
>
> Title:
> flashplugin-installer does not honor proxy settings
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1037662/+subscriptions
>

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  /V\ Jan Groenewald
 /( )\ www.aims.ac.za
 ^^-^^

[latimerio (fomember)]

I administer >100 hosts with 12.04LTS and 14.04LTS and the problem with update-notifier-common not respecting proxy settings is very annoying.
I have set the proxy in /etc/apt/apt.d/95proxies in /etc/environment and with gsettings as recommended in http://askubuntu.com/questions/150210/how-do-i-set-systemwide-proxy-servers-in-xubuntu-lubuntu-or-ubuntu-studio but still anacron reports the error.
I think the real bug is #1209146 as anacron does not run with the correct environment settings.

[Josep Pujadas-Jubany (jpujades)]

/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader from update-notifier uses python urllib

It seems to be problems when using proxies. In addition, urllib doesn't supports https protocol.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html#urllib-restrictions

Using a http proxy, adobe-flashplugin updates will work but not allways:

urllib.urlretrieve("http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.425.orig.tar.gz", "adobe-flashplugin.tar.gz")

Using a https proxy, pepflashpluguin updates will never work:

urllib.urlretrieve("https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_39.0.2171.95-1_i386.deb", "google-chrome.deb")

So, scripts must be something like:

export http_proxy=http://192.168.0.1:3128
export https_proxy=https://192.168.0.1:3128
apt-get install -y flashplugin-installer
apt-get install -y pepflashplugin-installer
echo "" >> /etc/chromium-browser/default
echo ". /usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer/pepflashplayer.sh" >> /etc/chromium-browser/default
echo "" >> /etc/chromium-browser/default
unset http_proxy
unset https_proxy
apt-get --reinstall install -y flashplugin-installer
apt-get --reinstall install -y pepflashplugin-installer

Of course, if yo do this, your corporative firewall/proxy must allow direct connections to archive.canonical.com (http) and dl-ssl.google.com (https).

In my opinion, update-notifier (and other applications using urllib) should avoid python urllib

There are many bugs related (in fact, they are duplicated):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/anacron/+bug/1209146
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1098233
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1037662
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1005837
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.buildout/+bug/484735

[Bart Martens (bartm)]

Please don't send notifications about bugs in flashplugin-nonfree in Ubuntu to <email address hidden>, because Debian uses a different package named flashplugin-nonfree.

[Josep Pujadas-Jubany (jpujades)]

More bugs about this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/983559
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/820383

[Josep Pujadas-Jubany (jpujades)]

#13

OOps, sorry!

[Bart Martens (bartm)]

Please stop sending notifications to <email address hidden>.