Flash installer Broken (K)ubuntu 7.10

Thu Jan 10 22:34:12 UTC 2008

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:23 -0500, Richard wrote:
> Well, I did un/install flashplugin-nonfree several times, and still
> can't get Konqueror to see flashplayer, the last time I did the
> install threw the terminal and found this:
> 
> sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> 
> [sudo] password for rn:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> 
> Building dependency tree
> 
> Reading state information... Done
> 
> Suggested packages:
> 
> firefox ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
> 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> 
> flashplugin-nonfree
> 
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> 
> Need to get 18.1kB of archives.
> 
> After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
> 
> Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse
> flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12 [18.1kB]
> 
> Fetched 18.1kB in 0s (34.2kB/s)
> 
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> 
> Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
> 
> (Reading database ... 86429 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> 
> Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2
> +really0ubuntu12_i386.deb) ...
> 
> Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12) ...
> 
> Downloading...
> 
> --23:48:41-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...9_linux.tar.gz
> 
> => `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz'
> 
> Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 72.246.126.70
> 
> Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|72.246.126.70|:80...
> connected.
> 
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> 
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> 23:48:43 (1.15 MB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved
> [3036127/3036127]
> 
> Download done.
> 
> md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
> 
> The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Anyone I don't know what going on, but this states that flash player
> was NOT installed... now the $64.00 question is what's broken
> konqueror kubuntu or ?
> 
> What new steps does one have to take to INSTALL flashplayer into
> Konqueror ???
> 
> Thanks in Advances !!
> 
> Richard
> 
I ran into the same problem on ubuntu 7.10 same md5sum mismatch message.
I went to the Adobe site and downloaded from there.  worked fine from
there.
Darryl