Comment 4 for bug 174276

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Pm (pmichaud) wrote : Re: flashplugin-nonfree issue

Just confirming that I'm seeing the same problem under kubuntu 32-bit gutsy.

$ sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree
...
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
....
 2850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 97% 638.72 KB/s
 2900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 639.63 KB/s
 2950K .......... .... 100% 272.72 KB/s

00:41:30 (614.40 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [3036127/3036127]

Download done.
md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

$

The telling line is the "md5sum mismatch" one -- looks like something changed in the package and an md5sum didn't get updated. Either that or the package itself has been compromised somehow.

Pm