flashplugin-nonfree never installs plugin due to md5sum mismatch

[Jeff Schroeder]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

Adobe updated their linux version of flash player but the filename is the same. This causes the script to download and install it to fail the md5sum.
Here is the full output on a gutsy system for flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.31.0.4ubuntu2:

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Password for [jeff]:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  guidance-backends
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  konqueror-nsplugins msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/16.8kB of archives.
After unpacking 139kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 123177 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.31.0.4ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.31.0.4ubuntu2) ...
Downloading...
--00:15:02-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
           => `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz'
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 72.247.170.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|72.247.170.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,608,602 (2.5M) [application/x-gzip]

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00:15:06 (610.30 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [2608602/2608602]

Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

[metaph3r (schmidt-silvio)]

I can confirm this on Gutsy when trying to install 9.0.48.0.0ubuntu1 on 07-14-2007.

[metaph3r (schmidt-silvio)]

The original message was

Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

But I now found out that deleting

/var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

and calling

sudo ./flashplugin-nonfree.postinst configure in /var/lib/dpkg/info

manually afterwards it worked.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

metaph3r: this has already been fixed in version 9.0.48.0.0ubuntu1

[b (ben-ekran)]

Well its great its fixed in gutsy, but how about a fix for feisty?

9.0.31.0.2ubunutu1 is still doing the same thing, and metaph3r's manual trick does not work for me, the postinst script does the same thing rejecting the md5sum.

Also since the md5sum fails, should not the package show as not installed, rather than installed:

09:46:10 (531.86 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [2608602/2608602]

Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
*The Flash plugin is NOT installed.*
bbogart@aporia:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ dpkg -l flashplugin-nonfree
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
*ii flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.31.0.2ubuntu1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer*

Any word on a fix for feisty?

thanks,

[Wade Simmons (wadesimmons)]

b,

See bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12513 which this bug is marked as a duplicate of. A fix has been made and it is waiting for review before being added to feisty-updates.

[Wade Simmons (wadesimmons)]

Sorry, incorrect link in that last comment. Should be https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125131

[GNUtoo (gnutoo)]

on festy it does the same

[Morris Winkler (tat)]

the bug is still present on feisty, it shouldn take that long to review the updated package, for advanced users this in realy a big problem but newbies be missing there flash :(

[Nicklas Börjesson (nicklasb)]

Morris:

Hrm... Not having flash is a serious problem for the normal users, making webpages important to them inoperable. For several weeks!
In their eyes, it means linux sucks horse*#¤%.
Things like this should be top priority (yeah, top) to fix. It is actually of equally importance to a remote exploit. A show stopper for the user.
There are actually some things to learn from M$. Being a bit more pragmatic.

So...I know that you're probably kidding, but i am a little allergic to that attitude amongst linux-folks, since it has played such a big part in slowing both development and user adoption of desktop linux.

I am sorry if i overreacted a little bit.

[Robert Persson (ireneshusband)]

Zig007, perhaps you were a little overzealous, but the points you make are right on the nail. If ordinary users have to fight with their computers to get them to do ordinary things, they just won't stick around.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This problem should no longer be present in feisty unless its still in proposed repo and at that point just add the following repos to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and than sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade and it should upgrade the package. The reason why it would still be in proposed could be that maybe there is a different regression or just waiting for archive admin to push it to security repo. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/SRU as it explains why it takes a while to get things into security.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-proposed main restricted universe multiverse