Comment 212 for bug 173890

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote : Re: flashplugin-nonfree fails to install... new version?

The md5sums in the debian/config files were not updated, people with the previous flash tar still in their local disk will have flash suddenly removed.

Attaching a fix, tested with a user in that situation

17:38 < bazhang> 821cc72359a937caef85bb4cc74ef5cd /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
17:40 <Riddell> what's your output of apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree ?
17:40 <bazhang> flashplugin-nonfree:
17:40 <bazhang> Installed: 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.1
17:40 <bazhang> Candidate: 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.1
17:40 <bazhang> Version table:
17:40 <bazhang> *** 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.1 0
17:40 <bazhang> 500 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/multiverse Packages
17:40 <bazhang> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
17:40 <bazhang> 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12 0
17:40 <bazhang> 500 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Packages
17:41 <bazhang> or should I pastebin that?
17:41 <Riddell> that's fine
17:41 <Riddell> md5sum /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so ?
17:43 <bazhang> no such file or directory
17:43 <Riddell> good
17:43 <Riddell> wget http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2_i386.deb
17:44 <Riddell> dpkg --install flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.2_i386.deb
17:44 <Riddell> md5sum /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
17:46 <bazhang> this is connecting me to macromedia (the second command) is that right?
17:48 <Riddell> yes
17:48 <bazhang> just taking a while
17:49 <bazhang> 13ce705df5d47422a9192b29827544e8 /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
17:50 <Riddell> excellent