Comment 3 for bug 578625

1. Ensure flashplugin-installer is not installed yet (so I use "apt-get
remove" to remove it).
2. Install it with "apt-get install flashplugin-installer".
3. When it's downloading "adobe-flashplugin_xx.xx.xx.orig.tar.gz" with wget,
try Ctrl-C (hope your network speed is not that fast so that you have a
chance to press Ctrl-C before it finishes downloading).

In fact, this bug is annoying to those users behind a firewall. When he/she
doesn't set a proxy correctly for wget, the wget will be stuck there
retrying connections, and Ctrl-C doesn't work here.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Charlie Kravetz <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we cannot work on this bug because your
> description didn't include enough information.
>
> At a minimum, we need:
> * the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the
> problem
> * Please explain as simple and clear as possible how we can reproduce this
> issue.
> * Is wget interruptible with Ctrl+C normally?
> Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Ctrl-C doesn't work in "apt-get install flashplugin-installer"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578625
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> Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: apt
>
> In the execution of "apt-get install flashplugin-installer", everything
> looks okay until it starts to download "adobe_flashplugin...tar.gz". If it
> fails to connect, it will retry again and again to download with wget, and
> Ctrl-C cannot interrupt the downloading. I tried "aptitude" too, but wget is
> not interruptible, either.
>
> Interestingly, after I reboot (so that flashplugin-installer package is in
> the intermediate state), and when I run "dpkg --configure -a", it will go on
> the installation of flashplugin-installer by downloading "adobe...tar.gz"
> file. But "dpkg" CAN be interrupted by Ctrl-C.
>
> ******* 1. Release *******
> 10.04 LTS
>
> ******* 2. Package Versions *******
> apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu7
> aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu10
> wget 1.12-1.1ubuntu2
> flashplugin-installer 10.0.45.2ubuntu1
>
> ******* 3. What you expected to happen *******
> When I press "Ctrl-C", "apt-get" should be interrupted.
>
> ******* 4. What happened instead *******
> It's not interrupted when it's downloading with wget.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu7
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue May 11 11:26:19 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386
> (20100419.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_HK.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: apt
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