Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #173890
  2. Comment #125

Comment 125 for bug 173890

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Jim (jwyllie83) wrote : Re: [Bug 173890] Re: flashplugin-nonfree fails to install... new version?

Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
> I think a more important issue (not that flash not being installed is
> unimportant - i can live without it - i am just saying) - is the fact
> that apt reports it as being installed even though the install failed.

As many of the linked bugs note: the package managers (Synaptic, Adept,
etc) report it as installed, probably because of the exit code of apt.
Apt-get on the command line does not.