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flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #532542
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 532542

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Matt (meh106) wrote :

I've just installed Lucid and come across the same problem. The machine is within a corporate network and needs to go via a http proxy to get to the internet (to download the flash plugin). Despite having the $http_proxy environment variable set, and the gnome proxy settings correctly set, the flashplugin-installer does not seem to use the proxy and therefore failed.

$> sudo aptitude reinstall flashplugin-installer

  ...
  Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.0.45.2ubuntu1) ...
  Downloading...
  --2010-06-03 14:00:26-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz
  Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
  Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... failed: No route to host.
  download failed
  The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
  ...

Using socksify (and therefore going via the corporate socks proxy) solved this for me:

$> sudo socksify aptitude reinstall flashplugin-installer

flashplugin-installer needs to be modified to use proxy settings.