Flash plugin install fails due to md5sum mismatch

[Tom Haddon]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

There seem to be a number of other similar bugs, but since this is on gutsy, I thought I should report it fresh.

Downloading...
--08:51:37-- 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... 72.247.138.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|72.247.138.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]

    0K .. 1.14 MB/s

08:51:37 (1.14 MB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [2279]

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

[to be removed (liw)]

I have just tested that this works for me, on i386, running gutsy.

What architecture are you running one?

Can you find the file that the package downloaded and run md5sum on it? If you can, that would help us to verify that we both download the same file. My checksum is as follows:

821cc72359a937caef85bb4cc74ef5cd /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

If the files differ, one possibility is that you have a caching proxy that has the wrong version of the file. But that is just a guess.

[Tom Haddon (mthaddon)]

Apologies. It was a network proxy issue.