Uwe Geuder wrote: > This happens typically if your package index files are not up to date. I > have the feeling that flashplugin-installer is particular sensitive to > this issue, maybe because the code is dowloaded from a different site or > just because it used to be updated more often than many other packages. > > Can you reproduce this after running "sudo apt-get update"?
Actually the problem turned out to be that I didn't have precise-updates and precise-backports missings from sources.list. > P.S. Why did you want to do a reinstall? Did flash just stop working for > you? It was never installed to begin with, because without p-updates and p-backports the installer pointed to a old version of the plugin which was missing from the download site. The biggest problem is that the flash install fails silently. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1026858 Title: flashplugin-installer can't find adobe- flashplugin_11.2.202.233.orig.tar.gz To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1026858/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
