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flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #409119
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 409119

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helix84 (helix84) wrote :

I was just going to report same bug. Only my download failed due to wrong setting of http_proxy environment variable.

Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.0.42.34ubuntu0.9.10.1) ...
Downloading...
Error parsing proxy URL wpad://: Unsupported scheme.
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

> For the record, flash worked okay after a `sudo dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-installer`.

Here, too.

> However, the actual problem is that when there is such a failure, the configuration reports success.

100% agreed. This happened during my upgrade to Karmic shortly after release. Only now I found out that Flash isn't working. Explicit error is better than a hidden one.

A solution would be to leave the package unconfigured.