Ubuntu 12.04 hanging very frequently

[Sanjib Sikder]

Hi,

> It should be installed.

Yes, You are right. It got installed. It is not showing in Software Center,
so I got misguided. The version is 11.2.

Now let me see whether my system still hangs frequently or not.

Thanks.


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*Sanjib Sikder
*Ph.D. Fellow
Chemical Engineering
IIT Bombay*

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On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 4 March 2013 14:53, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> If we knew the exact message then we could possibly help.
> >
> > I uninstalled the adobe flash plug in that I had installed manually.
> Then I
> > tried to install it through software center. The first message that it
> > showed is:
> >
> >> Requires installation of untrusted packages
> >> The action would require the installation of packages from not
> >> authenticated sources.
> >> Details:
> >> flashplugin-installer
> >
> >
> > And it asked for repair. Once repair button is selected, it installed
> adobe
> > flash plug in with a pop up which says
>
> I don't know what that was about, possibly a hang over from previous
> attempts.
>
> >
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > The option was 'run this action now'. On pressing that, the terminal
> opened
> > with following lines
> >
> >> flashplugin-installer: downloading
> >>
> http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.273.orig.tar.gz
>
> That means that it is working ok this time
> >
> > After sometime the terminal got closed. So ultimately the  adobe
> installer
> > got installed but the installer could not download and install adobe
> flash
> > plug in.
>
> When you say it "got closed" do you mean you closed it or it did it
> itself?  If it did it itself then it should mean that it completed the
> download and installed it.
>
> >
> > There is no issue with my internet connection.
> >
> > How do I install adobe flash plug in from software center ?
>
> It should be installed.  Is flash working?
>
> If, in a terminal you do
> apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer
> what do you see, and in Firefox if you go to Tools > Addons > Plugins
> you should see Shockwave Flash.  Which version does it say it is?
>
> Colin
>
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