Adobe have moved the flash download location.

[David Rubin]

The flash location http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz is no longer valid URL on adobes servers.

First part of this bug is that the installer doesn't pick up the "HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found" status code and report this error. If you look at my second command trying to re-install it APT thinks that becuase the .deb file was downloaded and run that the package was successfully install. This isn't the case.

The second part is that the url needs to be changed. To the correct flash URL.

I hope this helps.

drubin@moo:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  konqueror-nsplugins libflashsupport ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/18.9kB of archives.
After this operation, 168kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 102703 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2) ...
Downloading...
--10:12:36-- 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... 84.53.186.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|84.53.186.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
10:12:38 ERROR 404: Not Found.

download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

drubin@moo:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[David Rubin (drubin)]

As a follow up I think this system of pulling the tar.gz file direct from the adobe website is a bad idea. Is it against the TOS to copy that file to ubuntu mirrors?

[David Rubin (drubin)]

I forgot to link to the new latest version of flash as it might save time.

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported, but please feel free to report any other bugs you find.