Comment 5 for bug 977178

The proposed fix in #3 does not work for me. Am behind a proxy which I have manually configured systemwide, such that the relevant proxy environment variables show up in /etc/environment. However, while the package flashplugin-installer installs fine, it fails to download the file

http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.228.orig.tar.gz

I suspect that the process that is supposed to download this file does not have the complete environment that should include /etc/environment.