flash not installed

[Joachim Nuesch]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

yesterday my kubuntu 10.10 (amd64) updated the flash plugin to the version:
10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1

since then I don't have any flash plugin anymore in opera, firefox or chromium.

Purge and reinstallation didn't help.

[terry b (tbohaning-gmail)]

I see this as well. It appears that the tar.gz file gets downloaded, but the libflashplayer.so flie is never installed correctly.

I'm running 64 bit as well.

[Maciej Wisniowski (pigletto-gmail)]

Same here. Flash doesn't work in Chrome and Firefox. I had to force installation of older version of this package: 10.1.85.3 to make it work again.

[Juan Garcia (juanantonio-garcia-01)]

I can confirm this bug. Flash stopped working after the update to 10.2.
nspluginwrapper -l shows nothing.
Running Kubuntu 64 bits

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for reporting this issue. Are there any files in your /var/lib/flashplugin-installer directory?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

I'm sorry, I meant the /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer directory.

[Peter Dewitt (peterg-dewitt)]

Running Kubuntu 10.10 64Bit, I have the same problem. There are no files in my /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer directory

[Maciej Wisniowski (pigletto-gmail)]

Marc: I had this problem (as I stated previously), then I forced synaptic to install older package.

After your answer I did update (so 10.2.152.27 were istalled again) and... everything works. I do have libflashplayer.so at /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer

Strange...

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Hmm...that's odd. I can't seem to reproduce this.

Is anyone here getting this issue who is _not_ running Kubuntu?

[Joachim Nuesch (joachim)]

To confim: my /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer is also empty

[Maciej Wisniowski (pigletto-gmail)]

In my case this was Kubuntu 10.10 (amd64) too.

[Peter Dewitt (peterg-dewitt)]

Just removed flashplugin-nonfree, then did a sudo apt-get update, then did a sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree. Restarted Chromium and flash is working again. I now have libflashplayer.so in the above mentioned directory.

[Peter Dewitt (peterg-dewitt)]

Sorry, I removed the "installer" package. Just did this on my wifes machine and it worked also.

[Joachim Nuesch (joachim)]

Works for me. The problem is KPackageKit, the installation must be done with apt-get and not with KPackageKit.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

I'm afraid I can't recreate this issue. Installed the old flashplugin-installer from KPackageKit, enabled updates, upgraded to the new flashplugin-installer, /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so still works

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Please check /var/log/apt/term.log for any messages regarding flashplugin-installer and post here

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

I think I managed to recreate this once, the flash tar wasn't downloaded and so didn't install. Unfortunately I don't think packagekit does output logging by default. killing and running /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd (as root) gives output but I haven't been able to recreate it since, the tar has downloaded and installed fine

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Recreated it again, here's the faulty output

20120,196
How odd.. The sizes didn't match, email <email address hidden> proccess running...
FINISH the last package: flashplugin-installer
Downloading...
--2011-02-11 12:47:31-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.2.152.27.orig.tar.gz
Resolving \002... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `\002'
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
Parent finished...

I think the "sizes didn't match" is a separate issue, that happens regardless of whether the tar downloads or not

But why it should be looking for host address "\002" is a mystery

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Related to bug 680328 ? Maybe that should be backported to maverick

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

I backported the commits to fix bug 680328 but it didn't help, output is not in /var/log/apt/term.log instead out packagekitd stdout but it still failed:

Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 10.1.85.3ubuntu1 (using .../flashplugin-installer_10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-installer ...
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1) ...
Downloading...
--2011-02-11 16:00:07-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.2.152.27.orig.tar.gz
Resolving \3109\177... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `\3109\177'
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Valorie Zimmerman (valorie-zimmerman)]

After the upgrade from Mav to 11.04, flash is broken. I removed it in muon, and tried re-installing in the cli:

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libqzeitgeist0 esound-clients xulrunner-2.0 libgnomepanel2.24-cil g++-4.4 libglew1.5 libmp4v2-0 libgnomevfs2-extra firefox-branding
  xulrunner-2.0-mozjs liblash-dev libx264-98 libexempi3 libpanel-applet2-0 libmatroska2 libdbusmenu-gtk1 libiptcdata0 libwildmidi0 uuid-dev
  libxdot4 libsoundtouch1c2 libebml2 libstdc++6-4.4-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-installer
Suggested packages:
  xulrunner-1.9 firefox-3.0 konqueror-nsplugins ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1,770 B/11.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 229 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/multiverse flashplugin-nonfree amd64 10.2.159.1ubuntu1 [1,770 B]
Fetched 1,770 B in 0s (4,225 B/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-installer.
(Reading database ... 273134 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-installer (from .../flashplugin-installer_10.2.159.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_10.2.159.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up nspluginwrapper (1.2.2-0ubuntu9) ...
plugin dirs: :/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Segmentation fault
dpkg: error processing nspluginwrapper (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of flashplugin-installer:
 flashplugin-installer depends on nspluginwrapper (>= 0.9.91.4-2ubuntu1); however:
  Package nspluginwrapper is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of flashplugin-nonfree:
 flashplugin-nonfree depends on flashplugin-installer; however:
  Package flashplugin-installer is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                 ...

[themroc (rauchweihe)]

Same Problem in Kubuntu amd64 11.04:

KPackageKit could not update the flashplugin-installer: No error during update with KPackageKi, but the new flashplugin will not downloaded and installed.

This Problem happens only on 64bit Kubuntu installations.

[Taras Puchko (taras-puchko)]

I can reproduce on Kubuntu amd64 11.04 the problem themroc has.

I have flash installed using apt-get, but updating using KPackageKit just removes the plugin. Reinstalling using KPackageKit doesn't help, but apt-get does work.

[Elsevier (kofferpc)]

I have the same problem and it still exists.

It can be solved by purging the flashplugin-* directories and reinstalling flash by either using the "additional packages available" dialogue when opening reqonk, or using apt-get.

Running updated Kubuntu 11.04_64 KDE 4.6.3.

Would be nice to get this problem solved. Makes updating your system using KPackageKit for newbies VERY annoying.

Regards

[Schaap (t-m-schaap)]

Same problem still occurs, using kpackagekit on Kubuntu Natty 64.

/var/log/apt/term.log:
--2011-08-27 14:26:34-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.3.183.7.orig.tar.gz
Resolving \002... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `\002'
download failed

apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer
fixes the problem as reported earlier.