[Bug 195422] [NEW] hardy heron 8.04 alpha 5 - flash not installed correctly

Savvas Radević vicedar at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 12:50:00 UTC 2008


Public bug reported:

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 alpha 5 x86_64

The amd64 flash plugin and nspluginwrapper didn't bind to firefox 3 properly upon installation. I can't see any flash content:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

Maybe it's the use of /usr/lib/ directory instead of /var/lib/ ?
I know how to do it manually:
sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so  /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
..but this wasn't necessary for Gutsy 7.10.

nspluginwrapper:
  Installed: 0.9.91.5-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.9.91.5-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.91.5-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: 9.0.115.0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 9.0.115.0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 9.0.115.0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ dir -l /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2008-02-25 13:23 flashplugin-alternative.so -> /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin

$ dir -l /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2008-02-25 13:23 /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin -> /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  firefox konqueror-nsplugins ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/18.4kB of archives.
After this operation, 168kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 105146 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.115.0ubuntu4) ...
Downloading...
--13:22:24--  http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
           => `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz'
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 88.221.178.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|88.221.178.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3,036,127 (2.9M) [application/x-gzip]

    0K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  1%   52.42 KB/s
   50K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  3%   52.41 KB/s
  100K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........  5%   50.95 KB/s
[...]
 2900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%   49.49 KB/s
 2950K .......... ....                                       100%   54.28 KB/s

13:23:24 (50.03 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved
[3036127/3036127]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.


P.S. It's not an md5sum mismatch.

** Affects: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Changed in: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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hardy heron 8.04 alpha 5 - flash not installed correctly
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