flashplugin-installer doesn't retrieve needed package "adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz"

[chrisarr]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

I'm trying to install flashplugin-installer_10.0.45.2ubuntu1_amd64.deb on my pc with Ubuntu 10.04 (64bit). To do so, apt-get attempts without success to download "adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz" from http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz.

Every time I execute apt-get install flashplugin-installer, after the other messages as usual it displays (sorry it's in italian, because I am italian...):

Configurazione di flashplugin-installer (10.0.45.2ubuntu1)...
Downloading...
--2010-05-13 23:00:12-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz
Risoluzione di archive.canonical.com... 1.0.0.0
Connessione a archive.canonical.com|1.0.0.0|:80... fallito: Connessione scaduta.
Altro tentativo in corso.

--2010-05-13 23:00:34-- (tentativo: 2) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz
Connessione a archive.canonical.com|1.0.0.0|:80... fallito: Connessione scaduta.
Altro tentativo in corso.

--2010-05-13 23:00:57-- (tentativo: 3) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz
Connessione a archive.canonical.com|1.0.0.0|:80... fallito: Connessione scaduta.
Altro tentativo in corso.

--2010-05-13 23:01:21-- (tentativo: 4) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz
Connessione a archive.canonical.com|1.0.0.0|:80... fallito: Connessione scaduta.
Altro tentativo in corso.

--2010-05-13 23:01:46-- (tentativo: 5) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz
Connessione a archive.canonical.com|1.0.0.0|:80... fallito: Connessione scaduta.
Altro tentativo in corso.

--2010-05-13 23:02:12-- (tentativo: 6) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz
Connessione a archive.canonical.com|1.0.0.0|:80... fallito: Connessione scaduta.
Altro tentativo in corso.

--2010-05-13 23:02:39-- (tentativo: 7) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz
Connessione a archive.canonical.com|1.0.0.0|:80... fallito: Connessione scaduta.
Altro tentativo in corso.

and so on, with 20 attempts to download the file with wget.

I can get the needed file downloading it from the same URL using firefox, but after I don't know what to do with it...

[walec51 (me-adamwalczak)]

I have the same problem

[Stuart Rossiter (monsieurrigsby)]

Same problem. I'm behind a proxy, but apt-get works for everything else and, for example, I can wget from the cmd line; http_proxy is set correctly in the environment variables.

[Stuart Rossiter (monsieurrigsby)]

To be clear, I can wget the exact file it requires from the cmd line so, if the installer is using wget under the covers (as I assume it is), it's somehow losing the proxy details. (Maybe others can confirm that the problem only occurs behind a proxy server....)

Also, even though it fails, the packages are both marked as installed, which is not ideal.

[Stuart Rossiter (monsieurrigsby)]

Sorry for the multiple updates but resolved this one; my bad.

It's a symptom of bug #556293 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/556293). http_proxy is not getting set properly for a sudo environment (via Apply System Wide from System-->Preferences-->Network Proxy).

So wget fails when run as sudo under the apt-get. Confirmed via solution as in that bug: sudo into a new shell, set http_proxy and then do an apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree.

So i'd suggest this can be marked as a duplicate of 556293, unless anyone is having this problem whilst NOT behind a proxy....

[Stuart Rossiter (monsieurrigsby)]

Since noone responded, marked as duplicate of #556293 as in previous post #4