[Bug 532542] Re: [lucid] flashplugin-installer doesn't work with Firefox 3.6

[Matt]

I've just installed Lucid and come across the same problem. The machine
is within a corporate network and needs to go via a http proxy to get to
the internet (to download the flash plugin). Despite having the
$http_proxy environment variable set, and the gnome proxy settings
correctly set, the flashplugin-installer does not seem to use the proxy
and therefore failed.

$> sudo aptitude reinstall flashplugin-installer

  ...
  Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.0.45.2ubuntu1) ...
  Downloading...
  --2010-06-03 14:00:26--  http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz
  Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
  Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... failed: No route to host.
  download failed
  The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
  ...

Using socksify (and therefore going via the corporate socks proxy)
solved this for me:

$> sudo socksify aptitude reinstall flashplugin-installer

flashplugin-installer needs to be modified to use proxy settings.

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[lucid] flashplugin-installer doesn't work with Firefox 3.6
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532542
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