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Bart Martens wrote: > Does this work ? > > man update-flashplugin-nonfree yes > update-flashplugin-nonfree --install yes Unfortunately, I was not aware of the update-flashplugin-nonfree script. Is this script or its man page referenced anywhere? A README.Debian would have helped me to find out about it. >> If a user did not have flashplugin-nonfree installed (from sid or >> etch-backports) and installs it now, she will end up with an unhelpful >> error message saying: >>> MD5 checkum mismatch >>> failed: --install > > Are you sure about that ? I tried it myself: aptitude -y purge flashplugin-nonfree && \ rm -rf /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/ && \ rm -rf /tmp/flashplugin-nonfree.tmp/ && \ aptitude -y install flashplugin-nonfree >> And while the package has been successfully installed by means of the >> package manager, its functionality is not provided, which, in my point of >> view, should make us consider it broken. > > Installing update-flashplugin-nonfree is successful. Running > update-flashplugin-nonfree is successful depending on multiple > conditions, including networking. Networking was available, proxy-less http access available, the wget download from adobe went well. After that, the checksum mismatch error occured, and, not knowing about update-flashplugin-nonfree, I gave up. However, trying to reproduce this again now, it works perfectly, and the latest version is installed. So feel free to consider this unreproducible/worksforme. >> And for those who already have version 1.4~bpo40+1 (etch-backports) or >> version 1.4 (sid) installed, the security impact remains, and with this bug >> being closed, they have no debian way (such as through apt-listbugs) to >> find out. > > The user of flashplugin-nonfree is expected to use > update-flashplugin-nonfree to keep the plugin up-to-date. If so, adding a daily cron job snippet to the package or at least noting about this neccessity in a README.Debian would be very helpful. Thanks for your kind support, Moritz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH/89+n6GkvSd/BgwRCqZEAJ4s/nfrJUY9+9L1QXq5h/4tuIVaUwCdFUWD BwClwQEyIvowSEQRZVF1r6Q= =/w15 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
