[natty-testing] package flashplugin-installer 10.2.153.1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Stanz]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

Needing the flash player to view video on youtube.
Package from repos'

fresh install

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 10.2.153.1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
AptOrdering: flashplugin-installer: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 29 19:07:51 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110329.1)
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-installer 10.2.153.1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

Manual install yields:

$ sudo /usr/bin/nspluginwrapper -v -v -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libssl3.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

$ locate libssl3.so
/usr/lib/libssl3.so
/usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d
/usr/lib/firefox-4.0/libssl3.so
/usr/lib32/libssl3.so
/usr/lib32/libssl3.so.1d

$ file /usr/lib/libssl3.so /usr/lib/firefox-4.0/libssl3.so /usr/lib32/libssl3.so
/usr/lib/libssl3.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
/usr/lib/firefox-4.0/libssl3.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped
/usr/lib32/libssl3.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib32/libssl3.so' (No such file or directory)

It seems that the recent ia32-libs update doesn't contain libssl3.so anymore?

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

After fixing that:
$ sudo ln -s /lib32/libssl.so /usr/lib32/libssl3.so

I'm getting:
$ sudo /usr/bin/nspluginwrapper -v -v -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libsmime3.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

$ dpkg -L ia32-libs |grep smime3
/usr/lib32/libsmime3.so.1d
$ ls -l /usr/lib32/libsmime3.so.1d
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2011-03-30 09:16 /usr/lib32/libsmime3.so.1d -> libsmime3.so

So the link is there, but the actual library is missing!

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

And indeed, going back to ia32-libs_20090808ubuntu9_amd64.deb fixes things:

$ sudo dpkg -i ia32-libs_20090808ubuntu9_amd64.deb
dpkg: warning: downgrading ia32-libs from 20090808ubuntu10 to 20090808ubuntu9.
(Reading database ... 223501 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu10 (using ia32-libs_20090808ubuntu9_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ia32-libs ...
Setting up ia32-libs (20090808ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  lib32ncursesw5
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.2.153.1ubuntu1) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/flashplugin-installer/adobe-flashplugin_10.2.153.1.orig.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.