Flash tar file moved from mirrors to macromedia

[Alexandre Otto Strube]

The flash package is not already on mirrors supplied by flashplugin-nonfree in /etc/update-flashplugin.conf.rb . All those mirrors will return a 404-not-found message when trying to update.

They will all also point the new location to
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz

The flashplugin-nonfree installation will always return an error now. This must be corrected as soon as possible, or the package be dropped.

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

this is not a dupe from https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/4430 , altough they're related.

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

The script /usr/sin/update-flashplugin will no longer work. The problem is that macromedia's site does not release the gpg_md5sums.txt file. Installing the package will work, even if the script does not succeed in downloading and extracting the plugin.

When the package is installed,
if the /etc/update-flashplugin is patched to

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@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@

 module UpdateFlashPluginConf
   SITES = {
-# "sluglug.ucsc.edu" => "/macromedia/tarball/debian/",
- "ruslug.rutgers.edu " => "/macromedia/tarball/debian/",
- "macromedia.mplug.org" => "/tarball/debian/",
- "macromedia.rediris.es" => "/tarball/debian/",
+ "fpdownload.macromedia.com" => "/get/flashplayer/current/"
   }
 end
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And the /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin to
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--- /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin 2004-10-06 14:22:49.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin.patched 2005-11-29 17:02:10.000000000 +0000
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   def initialize
     @version = "7.0.25"
     @check_only = false
- @force = false
+ @force = true
     @need_update = false
     @tar_sum = " 3de1fafb338dd82f1de596e8a3b31344"
     @instdir = "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree"
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And running update-flashplugin (thus ignoring the checks) will make it work. As there's no reliable way to verify how good is a package, it seems that the responsability now belongs to package maintainer.

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

I've just uploaded a package with the above patch (and with updated md5sum/version) for dapper. Thx. for your contribution.