Flash installation problems

[ashen]

Hi,

I am currently having problems trying to install the flashplugin-nonfree using apt-get.

I get the following error message:

Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3) ...
Downloading...
--2010-07-13 14:15:19--  http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.53.64.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... failed: Connection refused.
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

Any ideas what is going wrong? I'm behind a proxy server - could the download be timing out??

Thanks,

Alex

[Johnny B]

you could try going to system > administration > software sources and changing the download server.

[Directive 4]

if you use firefox, a good thing to try would be

flash-aid

a plugin for buntu

it will solve all problems,

(with flash!)

[philinux]

Hi,

I am currently having problems trying to install the flashplugin-nonfree using apt-get.

I get the following error message:

Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3) ...
Downloading...
--2010-07-13 14:15:19--  http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.53.64.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... failed: Connection refused.
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

Any ideas what is going wrong? I'm behind a proxy server - could the download be timing out??

Thanks,

Alex

System>Prefs>Network Proxy.

[ashen]

System>Prefs>Network Proxy.

Thanks - I should have said: I need the network proxy to connect to the Internet in my org.

you could try going to system > administration > software sources and changing the download server.

Cheers, I'll try using the UK server and see if that makes a difference!

Thanks,

Alex

[deesto]

Sorry to dredge this back up, but I'm having the same problem:

$ sudo apt-get -y install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-installer
Suggested packages:
  xulrunner-1.9 konqueror-nsplugins msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/22.0kB of archives.
After this operation, 233kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-installer.
(Reading database ... 168319 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-installer (from .../flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_10.1.85.3ubuntu0.10.04.1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.1.85.3ubuntu0.10.04.1) ...
Downloading...
--2010-09-23 10:14:16--  http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... failed: Connection refused.
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.

Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (10.1.85.3ubuntu0.10.04.1) ...
$

System>Prefs>Network Proxy.

I've already got that set, and most apt* commands work properly as a result, but I am surprised to say that this still fails.

if you use firefox, a good thing to try would be
flash-aid
a plugin for buntu
it will solve all problems,
(with flash!)

I'm not convinced that this is the case: I get the same error using FLASH-AID, as the plug-in simply runs a shell script with call-outs to the same commands as apt* uses. At any rate, in my case, I see the same "connection refused" error in the terminal output.

you could try going to system > administration > software sources and changing the download server.

Sorry: change this to what? I can access the given URL via Firefox, wget, etc., so I don't think changing the URL will help (but perhaps it would?). I've also confirmed that my proxy is set in /etc/apt/apt.conf, so I'm quite puzzled as to why apt-get normally works through the proxy but fails in this case.

[pedro_orange]

That is certainly a strange error, when I open a browser I can go to http://archive.canonical.com/pool/pa....3.orig.tar.gz

Can you go to this link in your browser?
If you can, just install it from the tarball.
If not, step back - can you resolve archive.canonical.com etc?

I doubt this will help, but have you tried installing the meta-package 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' instead of just explictly flashplugin-nonfree? It might do something else that may cause it to work.

[Vaphell]

isn't flashplugin-nonfree 32bit? simply get 64bit version from adobe site http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html and put libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
granted, this is a manual method that skips repos entirely but it has never failed me

[deesto]

That is certainly a strange error, when I open a browser I can go to http://archive.canonical.com/pool/pa....3.orig.tar.gz

Can you go to this link in your browser?

Yes, no problem with Firefox and that link. Firefox network is set to "use system proxy settings".

If you can, just install it from the tarball.

Yes, I could do that, but I would much rather keep it controlled by the overall system packaging system.

If not, step back - can you resolve archive.canonical.com etc?

Yes.

I doubt this will help, but have you tried installing the meta-package 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' instead of just explictly flashplugin-nonfree? It might do something else that may cause it to work.

Thanks for that ... I didn't have that package installed, and I've just installed it (didn't help) ... but I am now surprised again to see that when it got to the fonts portion of the package, many connection attempts to package hosts resulted in "... failed: Connection refused." Don't know what the heck is going on, but this seems to be much less Flash related and more proxy and connection related at this point.

isn't flashplugin-nonfree 32bit? simply get 64bit version from adobe site http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html and put libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
granted, this is a manual method that skips repos entirely but it has never failed me

Right. See above: I could do this, and will do it eventually if needed, but I'd rather not branch out from the repository packages unless absolutely necessary.

Also, I don't recall where, but I'd read recently that even though Adobe still makes the 64-bit package available, they are dropping support for it and shouldn't be relied upon for a consistent package. Could be an outright lie, but if not, it's certainly something to consider.

[Vaphell]

they don't make the 64bit package available, they actually updated it recently, like less than 2 weeks ago. Also i tried to use that more secure 32bit version with a wrapper before that recent release, but i gave up after 2 days - it was buggy and horrible. Navigation problems, unresponsiveness, Z axis glitches - you name it.
If you really want to install 64bit through the repos, find a PPA offering automated flash installation.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/i...-a-ppa-or-deb/