Houston, we still have a problem. To my knowledge and belief, I have carefully followed the Official Fix instructions given in bug #173890, including apt-get clean and apt-get autoclean. On my Gutsy system: I have only Ubuntu repositories enabled (comment lines snipped): root@odyssius:/home/simon# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy restricted main #Added by software-properties deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports restricted main multiverse universe root@odyssius:/home/simon# I then purge and attempt to reinstall the package: root@odyssius:/home/simon# apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED flashplugin-nonfree* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 160kB disk space will be freed. (Reading database ... 206773 files and directories currently installed.) Removing flashplugin-nonfree ... Purging configuration files for flashplugin-nonfree ... root@odyssius:/home/simon# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: konqueror-nsplugins ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs The following NEW packages will be installed flashplugin-nonfree 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/18.2kB of archives. After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree. (Reading database ... 206767 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2_i386.deb) ... Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2) ... Downloading... (snipped dl stuff) --17:17:03-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz => `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 88.221.178.70 Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|88.221.178.70|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3,044,538 (2.9M) [application/x-gzip] 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1% 333.92 KB/s (snipped dl stuff) 17:17:25 (135.73 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [3044538/3044538] Download done. md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz The Flash plugin is NOT installed. The package policy is: root@odyssius:/home/simon# apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-nonfree: Installed: 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2 Candidate: 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2 Version table: *** 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/multiverse Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Packages root@odyssius:/home/simon# One suspects that Adobe have once again updated the package at the URL which the downloader attempts to fetch.