[Bug 461773] [NEW] apt-get installflashplugin-nonfree fails with HTTP 404 on fpdownload.macromedia.com

[Parag Joshi]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Since I upgraded to Kubuntu Hardy 8.04 (lsb_release shows Ubuntu 8.04.2), my flash player stopped working. I have tried re-installing flashplugin-nonfree. 
However, after removing it and running sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree, I get HTTP 404: 

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  libflashsupport xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 158 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.8kB of archives.
After this operation, 168kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2 [18.8kB]
Fetched 18.8kB in 1s (17.4kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 237490 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0ubuntu2) ...
Downloading...
--02:29:50--  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... 96.17.210.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|96.17.210.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
02:29:50 ERROR 404: Not Found.

download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

Note that, I did run sudo apt-get update before running this install command. So, it should have the right URL. 
Also, I could not view flash in Firefox even when flashplugin-nonfree was installed and I had the .so files in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory. 
Even after removing  flashplugin-nonfree, I still have flash player in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/. So, why does flash not work? 
$ ls /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
libflashplayer.so  mplayerplug-in-dvx.so   mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt  mplayerplug-in.so       mplayerplug-in.xpt
libjavaplugin.so   mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt  mplayerplug-in-rm.so   mplayerplug-in-wmp.so   nphelix.so
mozplugger.so      mplayerplug-in-qt.so    mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt  mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt  nphelix.xpt

At the very least, this HTTP 404 should be fixed.

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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apt-get installflashplugin-nonfree fails with HTTP 404 on fpdownload.macromedia.com
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