flashplugin-nonfree failed to install: Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.

Bug #200477 reported by Noe Nieto
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

Any attempt to install flashplugin-nonfree ends up Failing.
This happened after applying latest upgrades to Ubuntu
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Ubuntu Version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"

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tzicatl@tzicatl-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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 18.2kB of archives.
After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/multiverse flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2 [18.2kB]
Fetched 18.2kB in 1s (18.1kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 99334 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2) ...
Downloading...
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

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Noe Nieto (tzicatl) wrote :
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Dara Adib (daradib) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 45722, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

If you do not have this problem when you try to install flashplugin-nonfree again, please specify by adding a bug comment. Thank you.

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