flashplugin-installer downloads wrong tar.gz file (12.04)

Bug #1055626 reported by flashbugman
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Bug Description

What I did:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install flashplugin-installer

What I expected to happen:
Succcesful install of flashplugin

What happened instead:
A window pops up telling me "Failure to download extra data files". I can re-try the download.
Flash plugin install is unsuccesfull.

Solution:
The problem lies in the file "/usr/share/package-data-downloads/flashplugin-installer", part of the flashplugin-downloader package.
The line "Url: http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.233.orig.tar.gz"
should read "Url: http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.238.orig.tar.gz"
ie the last digit of the flash version number has been changed from '3' to '8'.

Workaround:
sudo apt-get -y install flashplugin-downloader
#Wait for the "Failure to download extra data files" message to pop up.
#Click close.
wget http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.238.orig.tar.gz
sudo /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/install_plugin `pwd`/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.238.orig.tar.gz

My System Info:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: 11.2.202.233ubuntu2
  Candidate: 11.2.202.233ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 11.2.202.233ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Revision history for this message
flashbugman (a93nkzzxu2t5hs06n) wrote :

OH oops!
I appear to have accidentally written "flashplugin-downloader" sometimes instead of "flashplugin-installer" I never intended to write downloader.

affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu) → flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
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