Public bug reported:
System information:
1) $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
2) $ apt-cache policy pepperflashplugin-nonfree
pepperflashplugin-nonfree:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.3ubuntu1
Version table:
1.3ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64
Packages
Package pepperflashplugin-nonfree version 1.3ubuntu1 (trusty) suggests 2
packages that are not available in the trusty repositories as such.
Output below shows 1) chromium and 2) hal as suggests:
$ apt-cache show pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/web
Installed-Size: 65
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Bart Martens <ba...@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3ubuntu1
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, gnupg, libatk1.0-0, libcairo2,
libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libgcc1, libglib2.0-0, libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14),
libnspr4, libnss3, libpango-1.0-0 | libpango1.0-0, libstdc++6, libx11-6,
libxext6, libxt6, libcurl3-gnutls, binutils
Suggests: chromium, ttf-mscorefonts-installer, ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree,
hal
Conflicts: libflash-mozplugin
Filename:
pool/multiverse/p/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/pepperflashplugin-nonfree_1.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 10052
MD5sum: 99172937c43768b153fedcbb7cf36e26
SHA1: 60313ff75a9feb3adc02bcd2c5b5cac35ac824c3
SHA256: d9ccee6607dad3d7b1748ba0b1a9a1d5b71896eaa313d153796c1f708c07b923
Description-en: Pepper Flash Player - browser plugin
This package will download Chrome from Google, and unpack it to make the
included Pepper Flash Player available for use with Chromium. The end user
license agreement is available at Google.
Description-md5: 308421c13180fc4cf682be0755dca66d
Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
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Analysis:
For 1) chromium: it is likely an oversight that the chromium web browser
users/ducumentation so often refers to as 'chromium' is in the Ubuntu repos as
'chromium-browser'. However, a user might confusingly get the below output when
trying to install the suggested chromium package:
$ sudo apt-get install chromium
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package chromium is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only
available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
chromium-bsu
E: Package 'chromium' has no installation candidate
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Installing chromium-bsu will work but leaves the user with an
unrelated package installed...
For 2) hal we have a similar situation:
$ sudo apt-get install hal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package hal is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
hal-info
E: Package 'hal' has no installation candidate
---
Installing hal-info will work but leaves the user with an unrelated
package installed...
A simple change to the pepperflashplugin-nonfree 'suggests' entree can correct
both situations.
** Affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Suggested packages chromium and hal are not available
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