Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Gutsy (7.10)
  2. Bug #173890
  3. Comment #210

Comment 210 for bug 173890

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Mike Trim (miketrim) wrote : Re: flashplugin-nonfree fails to install... new version?

(I couldn't understand Mekaniserad Apelsin's post so some of my post may just be repeating what he said.)

I received this update automatically via update manager. Because the previous tar.gz was still in /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree, the package did not attempt to download the new version, and of course it failed the md5sum check. I had to manually remove the old tar.gz and run aptitude reinstall to get it installed properly.

1) The package needs to remove the older tar.gz and then download the new one before checking its md5. Possibly the package could include md5sums for all previous versions of the package so that it knows that the tar.gz is a previous version (or the files could be renamed to include version info).

2) The package should fail to install if the md5sums do not match, instead of the package installing successfully without actually installing the plugin.