Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Gutsy (7.10)
  2. Bug #173890
  3. Comment #207

Comment 207 for bug 173890

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Mekaniserad Apelsin (blippe) wrote : Re: flashplugin-nonfree fails to install... new version?

This aint ok. You can't have a postinst-script that first checks if you have a file and don't check if it is the right file before deciding if to dl the right file.

It screws up upgrading (as you already know) and if/when this deb ever hits non proposed repos it will freak out tons of users that a update "destroys" their system, and you can't have this in proposed forever, new users are constantly asking why flash doesn't work and why they have to jump through loops to get flash working.

The script checks for the file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz, check it for its md5sum and if it's wrong, dl the new one, and not until that is done and md5 is still wrong fail the upgrade.