Synaptic incorectly reports a succesfull instalation of flashplugin-nonfree
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: synaptic
When attempting to install the flashplugin-nonfree package Synaptic Packet Manager reported that is was installed.
Check box checked, dependancies shown, file locations shown etc.
A check of the file locations through Nautilius showed other than an empty Directory, flashplugin-
I then ran apt-get-install to install the plugin which then returned the error;
md5sum mismatch install_
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
So while apt correctly did not install the plugin due to a md5sum mismatch, the Synaptic Packet Manager reported that it was installed,
when it should have returned a similar error as apt, then indicated that the package was not installed.
I am running Ubuntu 7.10 and it is afresh install.
| ofb (cottlestonpie) wrote | #1 |
| Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in synaptic: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Leigh (leigh-taylor) wrote | #3 |
| Dara Adib (daradib) wrote | #4 |
I've just come here to report this exact bug as described above. Also using U 7.10.
After uninstall then install with Synaptic to try to fix my Opera flash trouble, I too had empty target directories and thus no longer had flash working in Firefox either. With a little digging I came up the same observations as Leigh.
I've checked my Edubuntu 7.10 machine, which has no trouble with flash, and found that it is still using the older flashplugin-nonfree files, despite showing all updates in Synaptic. Looks like Synaptic also hit the checksum issue during update and did not complete, and thus did not overwrite the older files.
Both of my installs were fresh in October. The flashplugin-free problem came up in December and is reported here - https:/