Gnash plugin is not installable from precise livecd

[Vadim Rutkovsky]

TEST CASE:
1) Start guest session from livecd
2) Go to any flash site (e.g. youtube)
3) Click on 'Install Missing plugins'
4) Select 'Gnash Flash Player', click Next
Result: no plugins were installed, Gnash SWF Player - Failed
Expected Result: Gnash player is installed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: firefox 11.0~b4+build1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 4495 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20120224155729
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd8a00000 irq 48'
   Mixer name : 'Intel Cantiga HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7666,103c1526,00100105 HDA:11c11040,103c1378,00100200 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 22
   Simple ctrls : 10
CasperVersion: 1.304
Channel: beta
Date: Tue Feb 28 17:36:55 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 default via 172.16.0.1 dev eth2 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth2 scope link metric 1000
 172.16.0.0/24 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 172.16.0.197 metric 2
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120228.1)
Plugins:
 QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6 - Lib=libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
 DivX® Web Player - Lib=libtotem-mully-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
 Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem) - Lib=libtotem-gmp-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
 VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 3.0.1) - Lib=libtotem-cone-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
 iTunes Application Detector - Lib=librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=11.0/20120224155729
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/07/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68PVI Ver. F.08
dmi.board.name: 1526
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 71.0D
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68PVIVer.F.08:bd12/07/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pn:pvrF.08:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1526:rvrKBCVersion71.0D:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.version: F.08
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I also experienced this with a precise live cd from today.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Well, the problem is that universe is enabled on the CD but it doesn't ship a Packages list (so it won't work until you do an apt-get update). Not sure what to do there. In any case, this is only an issue on the live CD for packages in universe

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Can we display a meaningful error and possibly some instructions to install adobe-flashplugin or gnash?
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