post-install incorrectly assumes full internet access

[Shaddy Baddah]

Binary package hint: adobe-flashplugin

I have what I would call a non-trivial networking setup of my maverick install, because of my office firewall setup. I use approx, and when at work, I target ftp servers through my approx.conf config.

I've just tried to do an apt-get upgrade, and it is now stalled on installing/upgrading flashplugin-installer. The (I assume) post-install script is seemingly trying to wget a file named flashplugin_10.2.152.27.orig.tar.gz, And as you can see, as my install is not configured for http:

Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1) ...
Downloading...
--2011-02-21 14:11:08-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.2.152.27.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2011-02-21 14:14:23-- (try: 2) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.2.152.27.orig.tar.gz
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.
...
--2011-02-21 15:13:36-- (try:20) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.2.152.27.orig.tar.gz
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Giving up.

download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

Besides the annoyance of this installer breaking out of the apt installation system (usually one should safely assume that all dependencies are listed on the initial apt command, and that it is a complete list of what will be downloaded), I could not ctrl-c the install.

And as you can see, it took more than an hour for the wget to finally give up and let my much larger, and more important, apt-get upgrade continue.

Please consider another method to this install. As I recall, there are different prompt levels on a package install. Wouldn't it be better to prompt the user to give them the choice of a "web pull", and two options, one to a command-line to allow for manual download of the file, and the other to prompt for the location of the downloaded file.

Thanks,
Shaddy

Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

This is actually the flashplugin-nonfree package.