7.10 Gusty Gibbon flashplugin-nonfree will not install (bad postinst file)

[apache2]

On a clean install gusty gibbon i386 machine:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

It will precede to download and setup but has an error. Here is a copy of my output:

ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.48.0.0ubuntu6) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree.postinst: 107: Syntax error: "do" unexpected (expecting "fi")
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Seems to be something wrong in the postinst file.

[apache2 (sullr)]

Also check out https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnash/+bug/131864

In mozilla-plugin-gnash there was a similar problem apparently solved by Mario Đanić

[apache2 (sullr)]

I inspected mario's fix and here is the solution for flashplugin-nonfree:

in /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree.postinst, line 107,

replace:
‘for p in iceape iceweasel mozilla firefox xulrunner; do update-alternatives --install "/usr/lib/$p/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so" "$p-flashplugin" /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so 50; done’

with:
 for p in iceape iceweasel mozilla firefox xulrunner; do
      update-alternatives --install "/usr/lib/$p/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so" "$p-flashplugin" /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplugin.so 50;
     done

Proud to be of service!

[apache2 (sullr)]

Here is a working patch