Flash installer Broken (K)ubuntu 7.10

Thu Jan 10 21:44:05 UTC 2008

The same thing happened to me. I got one off mozilla.com and called it a day.

On Thursday 10 January 2008 16:23:43 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

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