flash plugin can only be installed by sudoers

[Jarl]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-installer

When a non-sudoer is viewing a site requiring flashplugin, firefox suggests to install flashplugin. However the installation cannot be completed because the user is not sudoer. The obvious behaviour would of course to to have flashplugin-installer to ask the user which superuser/sudoer to authenticate as, just like packagekit does when updates are available.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 24 22:22:29 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
Package: flashplugin-installer 10.0.32.18ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2997): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as Triaged and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better! Please report any other issues you may find.

If this is indeed possible, it would be nice.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Invalidating other tasks.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

The plugin finder has been discontinued.