[Bug 977178] Re: After upgrading to 12.04, flash doesn't seem to be installed to Firefox even though the package is.

[Markus Berndt]

I am installing from the terminal with

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

it asks for my password, installs the package, and almost immediately
the a window pops up titled "Information available" that states

<quote>
Failure to download extra data files

The following packages requested additional data downloads after package
installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be
processed.

flashplugin-installer

The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again now.  Running this command requires an active Internet connection.
</quote>

When I click on the button "Run this action now" I am asked to enter my
password, then a terminal window pops up for an instant and then
disappears. It looks like there's an error message displayed in that
terminal window but it disappears too quickly for me to read it.  That's
it, the file with the plugin is not downloaded.

One thing I now noticed is that when I get a root shell with 'sudo
bash', wget does not work with my proxy, while it works fine from my
user account. Maybe that is actually the problem?

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Title:
  After upgrading to 12.04, flash doesn't seem to be installed to
  Firefox even though the package is.

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Well, the summary says it all. After upgrading to 12.04 the flash is
  not working anymore in Firefox.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.228ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Apr  9 14:39:11 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-09 (0 days ago)

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