Suggested packages chromium and hal are not available
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
System information:
1) $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
2) $ apt-cache policy pepperflashplug
pepperflas
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.3ubuntu1
Version table:
1.3ubuntu1 0
500 http://
Package pepperflashplug
$ apt-cache show pepperflashplug
Package: pepperflashplug
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/web
Installed-Size: 65
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3ubuntu1
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, gnupg, libatk1.0-0, libcairo2, libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libgcc1, libglib2.0-0, libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14), libnspr4, libnss3, libpango-1.0-0 | libpango1.0-0, libstdc++6, libx11-6, libxext6, libxt6, libcurl3-gnutls, binutils
Suggests: chromium, ttf-mscorefonts
Conflicts: libflash-mozplugin
Filename: pool/multiverse
Size: 10052
MD5sum: 99172937c43768b
SHA1: 60313ff75a9feb3
SHA256: d9ccee6607dad3d
Description-en: Pepper Flash Player - browser plugin
This package will download Chrome from Google, and unpack it to make the
included Pepper Flash Player available for use with Chromium. The end user
license agreement is available at Google.
Description-md5: 308421c13180fc4
Homepage: http://
Bugs: https:/
Origin: Ubuntu
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Analysis:
For 1) chromium: it is likely an oversight that the chromium web browser users/ducumentation so often refers to as 'chromium' is in the Ubuntu repos as 'chromium-browser'. However, a user might confusingly get the below output when trying to install the suggested chromium package:
$ sudo apt-get install chromium
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package chromium is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
chromium-bsu
E: Package 'chromium' has no installation candidate
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Installing chromium-bsu will work but leaves the user with an unrelated package installed...
For 2) hal we have a similar situation:
$ sudo apt-get install hal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package hal is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
hal-info
E: Package 'hal' has no installation candidate
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Installing hal-info will work but leaves the user with an unrelated package installed...
A simple change to the pepperflashplug
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.