Installing the player doesn't work and breaks apt-get

[Jiří Janoušek]

Issue
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Installation of the package nuvolaplayer-flashplugin fails when a directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins doesn't exist (ElementaryOS Luna):

[INFO] Extracting Flash
[INFO] Found adobe-flashplugin-11.2.202.346/i386/libflashplayer.so
[INFO] Removing unused files
[INFO] Wrapping Flash plugin
Install plugin /opt/nuvolaplayer/flash/orig/libflashplayer.so
  into /root/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Error: Wrapping failed

Fix
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Create directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and reinstall the Flash plugin

sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nuvolaplayer-flashplugin

[Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo)]

Which distribution and architecture do you use?

[adrian smith (sfyire)]

Elementary OS (luna)
64bit

[Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo)]

Which version of nspluginwrapper is included in ElementaryOS Luna? You can use following command:

apt-cache show nspluginwrapper

[adrian smith (sfyire)]

1.4.4-0ubuntu4
(amd64)

[Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo)]

I've just tried installation of the package nuvolaplayer-flashplugin on Ubuntu 12.04, which ElementaryOS Luna is based on, and everything works great. I have no idea why nspluginwrapper attemps to install wrapped Flash plugin into /root/.mozilla/plugins instead of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Does directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins exist?

[adrian smith (sfyire)]

no it doesn't exist

[Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo)]

Could you try to create it and reinstall the Flash plugin?

sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nuvolaplayer-flashplugin

[adrian smith (sfyire)]

that appears to fix it, I did get a warning about a symlink and the newly created dir but I was able to open the player and I heard some music from hypem so I'm going to assume it's fixed, I'll do some more comprehensive "tests" after work