Comment 52 for bug 173890

This was a Kubuntu 7.10 install done just the other day, updated, then firefox was installed. I had installed the flashplugin-nonfree package and noticed the md5 error message and firefox didn't have a flash plugin visible so it didn't work and the drop down info bar or whatever it's called under the address bar was there for me to click the button. I can't reproduce this now, I only get the url that goes to the macromedia site do download and install so I don't know what allowed me the 'normal' way to get a missing plugin with firefox.

Regardless I still don't think it's proper to update a package and break working systems. Mike Melanson of Adobe seems very receptive on mailing lists so perhaps he could be contacted by the maintainer and help to get a working copy of the flash plugin hosted by Adobe to allow the original package to work again?