Flashplugin-installer not giving flash in browsers

[Marius B. Kotsbak]

After some Precise updates, Firefox and Chromium has no flash plugin. It does not appear in about:plugins listing.

Exchanging it by the adobe-flashplugin package solves it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.228ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 8 09:57:32 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

i can confirm the bug. after the latest dist-upgrade on 12.04 flash-support is missing in firefox.

The packages

flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.228ubuntu3)
flashplugin-downloader (11.2.202.228ubuntu3)

were updated

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

flashplugin-nonfree (11.2.202.228ubuntu3) precise; urgency=low

  * Only try to tear down old alternatives on package upgrade, not on new
    installs; the latter now fails since we're not installing our own
    alternative from the postinst anymore. LP: #975426.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:40:05 +0000

i am not exactly sure what this commit means but it is the latest changelog

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

As Marius already posted i can confirm that installing "adobe-flashplugin" fixed the issue (and removed flashplugin-installer/downloader)

Flash is working again now

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Probably the cause. Installing flashplugin-installer again, flash works.