[Bug 173890] Re: flashplugin-nonfree fails to install due to md5sum mismatch

Jim jwyllie83 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 16:51:35 UTC 2008


Alexander Sack wrote:
> Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>   
>> Matt,
>>
>> Waiting is the first option.  For those who don't want to wait, there is
>> the DIY approach.  I've done the 64-bit install multiple times
>> (different systems) with no problems.  YMMV.
>>
>> Long-term solutions are either to accept the periodic breakage, for
>> Ubuntu to relax the checks (which they don't want to do) or for Adobe to
>> maintain their own repository for Ubuntu, which they already do for
>> Fedora.  There have been many requests to Adobe to do so, although I am
>> not aware of a positive response from the company.
>>
>> But *today* the choices are either wait for the updated package or
>> install manually.
>>
>>   
>>     
> we have the binaries now in a canonical archive and will fix the
> installer package to pull stuff from there. In this way no transitional
> breakage will happen anymore.
>   
Can you do that?  I know the problem before was that the Adobe licensing 
agreement didn't allow redistribution.  Did that change?

If you can, then this is clearly the best solution for the time being.

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flashplugin-nonfree fails to install due to md5sum mismatch
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