[Bug 195422] Re: hardy heron 8.04 alpha 5 - flash not installed correctly

[Stéphane Charette]

Same problem.  Upgrade from 7.10-64bit to 8.04.  Here is the output of
the commands from 2 comments above:

stephane at renard:/$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
[...cut...]
 2900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99%  154.35 KB/s
 2950K .......... .......... ...                             100%  164.72 KB/s

20:41:17 (152.02 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved
[3044538/3044538]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.

stephane at renard:/$ uname -a
Linux renard 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
stephane at renard:/$ update-alternatives --list xulrunner-addons-flashplugin
stephane at renard:/$ update-alternatives --display xulrunner-addons-flashplugin
xulrunner-addons-flashplugin - status is auto.
 link currently points to /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
No versions available.

Note that this symbolic link:
stephane at renard:/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins$ dir flash*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 2008-04-28 20:41 flashplugin-alternative.so -> /etc/alternatives/xulrunner-addons-flashplugin

Points to this:
$ dir /etc/alternatives/xulrunner-addons-flashplugin 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2008-04-28 20:41 /etc/alternatives/xulrunner-addons-flashplugin -> /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

Which points to a non-existing file:
$ dir /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/
total 0

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hardy heron 8.04 alpha 5 - flash not installed correctly
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