Configuration of flashplugin-installer succeeds even when download fails
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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flashplugin-nonfree (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree
After really wanting to see a web page that uses flash in Firefox I clicked the "Install Missing Plugins..." button and chose the Adobe flash player (because the others don't really work in practice, do they?). After entering my password to allow the system to install the package flashplugin-
wget: unable to resolve host address `archive.
download failed
The falsh plugin is NOT installed.
Of course only serious bug hunters click the the "Details" button... Most users would wonder why on earth flash isn't working when they were told that it installed successfully.
I'm aware that since Adobe only allows limited distribution of flash through 3rd parties, flashplugin-
There are a few similar bug reports, but they never ended up going anywhere so I figured I'd better file a new report with updated (and English) information. Similar bugs include bug 215191, bug 218597, bug 311746, and bug 334601.
This bug is filed in Jaunty, but currently the package version in Karmic is the same.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: flashplugin-
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
description: | updated |
Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
A picture of the dialogs shown. Never mind the multiple images in the background, it is just because the firefox window doesn't refresh while the package installation is going on.