[Bug 310128] [NEW] Adobe flash plugin missing symlinks to work

[LTSmash]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

Hi,

I recently installed flashplugin-nonfree under Xubuntu 8.04 on two
machines. To begin with, I tried to load a video on YouTube, but Firefox
didn't offer me the flash installation, so I had to install it manually
under the console. I installed from normal repos first, and it correctly
installed flashplayer 9, but then I decided to activate the backports
repo to get the latest plugin; so after doing so I attempted to install
flashplugin-nonfree again, but it failed to download it, it seems that
the URL is incorrect (in the URL that works it uses the subdomain
"download", but with this package it attempts to access to the subdomain
"fpdownload", and it doesn't exists), so I downloaded the .deb from
Adobe's web directly, and it installed fine.

After that, when trying to load a video on YouTube again, it still said
that I had no flash installed, so I executed Firefox on the terminal and
noticed it was missing some symlinks:

harry at harry-desktop:~$ firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so [libnss3.so: no se puede abrír el archivo de objeto compartido: No existe el fichero ó directorio]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so [libnss3.so: no se puede abrír el archivo de objeto compartido: No existe el fichero ó directorio]

So after replacing it and all of the missing symlinks, flash began to
work:

harry at harry-desktop:~$ cd /usr/lib
harry at harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ ln -s libnss3.so.1d libnss3.so
harry at harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libnss3.so.1d libnss3.so
harry at harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libsmime3.so.1d libsmime3.so
harry at harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libssl3.so.1d  libssl3.so
harry at harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libplds4.so.0d libplds4.so
harry at harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libplc4.so.0d  libplc4.so
harry at harry-desktop:/usr/lib$ sudo ln -s libnspr4.so.0d libnspr4.so

Please add those symlinks to default Ubuntu 8.04.1 so that flash will
work correctly.

(NOTICE: This happend exactly the same way on two machines, so I guess
it's almost confirmed, isn't it?)

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

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Adobe flash plugin missing symlinks to work
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