flashplugin-installer: undeclared dependency on libcurl

[jsass]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

Installing flashplugin-nonfree in 11.04 requires libcurl as a dependent. Right now, it does not install with apt-get, which leads to confusion. I discovered this while installing localapps in to an LTSP chroot. It appears that libcurl3 is installed in a normal Ubuntu desktop installation.

I was able to fix this problem by running "apt-get install curl"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: flashplugin-nonfree (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 10 10:50:58 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Although it happened on LTSP, there's nothing to fix in LTSP for this bug. It's purely a packaging bug in the distro.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Confirmed; flashplugin dlopen()s libcurl.so.4, and if it's absent, npviewer.bin appears to spin indefinitely, eating 100% CPU. The package needs to have a dependency on libcurl added.

(This becomes particularly important for multiarch installation on amd64, where libcurl4:i386 won't be installed normally.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package flashplugin-nonfree - 10.3.183.4ubuntu2

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flashplugin-nonfree (10.3.183.4ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Add dependency on libcurl3 | libcurl3-gnutls, without which flashplugin
    eats 100% CPU and never loads. LP: #780573.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:52:26 -0700