Can't install flashplugin-nonfree

[Malte S. Stretz]

There seems to be a weird bug in the flashplugin-nonfree package (on x86). Its available in multiverse but if I try to install it, apt complains that its not.

It is possible to install it via aptitude by going to the package details and chosing 9.0.124.0ubuntu2 from the Versions list but then adept_updater starts to complain that it wants to update the package (which it can't do).

root@daventry:~# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package flashplugin-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package flashplugin-nonfree has no installation candidate
root@daventry:~# apt-cache showpkg flashplugin-nonfree
Package: flashplugin-nonfree
Versions:
9.0.124.0ubuntu2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
                  MD5: 1a4be98d3e26e938a50fa2ec3fddb383

Reverse Depends:
  xubuntu-restricted-extras,flashplugin-nonfree
  ubuntu-restricted-extras,flashplugin-nonfree
  kubuntu-restricted-extras,flashplugin-nonfree
  education-desktop-other,flashplugin-nonfree
Dependencies:
9.0.124.0ubuntu2 - debconf (16 (null)) debconf-2.0 (0 (null)) fontconfig (0 (null)) libatk1.0-0 (0 (null)) libc6 (0 (null)) libcairo2 (0 (null)) libexpat1 (0 (null)) libfontconfig1 (0 (null)) libfreetype6 (0 (null)) libglib2.0-0 (0 (null)) libgtk2.0-0 (0 (null)) libice6 (0 (null)) libpango1.0-0 (0 (null)) libpng12-0 (0 (null)) libsm6 (0 (null)) libx11-6 (0 (null)) libxau6 (0 (null)) libxcursor1 (0 (null)) libxdmcp6 (0 (null)) libxext6 (0 (null)) libxfixes3 (0 (null)) libxi6 (0 (null)) libxinerama1 (0 (null)) libxrandr2 (0 (null)) libxrender1 (0 (null)) libxt6 (0 (null)) wget (0 (null)) zlib1g (0 (null)) firefox (0 (null)) firefox-3.0 (0 (null)) konqueror-nsplugins (0 (null)) libflashsupport (0 (null)) msttcorefonts (0 (null)) ttf-bitstream-vera (16 (null)) ttf-dejavu (0 (null)) ttf-xfree86-nonfree (0 (null)) x-ttcidfont-conf (0 (null)) xfs (2 1:1.0.1-5) xulrunner-1.9 (0 (null)) flashplayer-mozilla (0 (null)) flashplugin (3 6) xfs (3 1:1.0.1-5) flashplugin (3 6)
Provides:
9.0.124.0ubuntu2 -
Reverse Provides:
root@daventry:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse
#deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted multiverse universe
root@daventry:~# uname -a
Linux daventry 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito)]

Thanks for reporting this.

Have you tried to

sudo apt-get update

?

[Malte S. Stretz (mss)]

Yes, I even manually removed /var/lib/apt/lists before doing so.

[Malte S. Stretz (mss)]

Oh, forgot to mention: This happens for quite a while now, at least one or two weeks.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please run apt-get update and than install it please give us the full output of the commands. Its there in multiverse and installable as i just installed it on this set up this morning.

[Malte S. Stretz (mss)]

I ran 'apt-get update' a few times already and it doesn't help. But I'm back on my machine (the one which behaves so weird is my mother's) and it flashplugin-nonfree (re-)installs fine here. Very weird, all I could think of why this might happen is that we use different mirrors. But the package exists on the de.archive.ubuntu.com mirror.

So it seems like that brokenness is a special foobar on that box, even though it happens to flashplugin-nonfree only. Sorry for bothering you :)