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Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Version: 1.8.1
Greetings Bart,
First, thank you for your work maintaining this package. We appreciate it!
I came across a failure of update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree that is quite
odd. It might be a bug, or maybe I am doing something wrong. There's
something really baffling for me about it, keep reading to find out.
First, the command update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree works perfectly from the
terminal in all machines here. That being said, I created the bash script
"UpdatePepperFlash" (has been chmod +x) as follows:
#!/bin/bash
update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install --verbose
exit 0
The script above is triggered by a .desktop launcher, as follows:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Update PepperFlash
Comment= Update PepperFlash
Exec=/usr/bin/gksudo /usr/local/bin/UpdatePepperFlash
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Icon=applications-system
Categories=System;
However, the script above fails in all machines here (32 and 64) with Debian
Jessie 8.2. Always (it is easily replicated), the script stops on the
terminal on something like this:
options : --install --verbose --
temporary directory: /tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.4Vfd5MLrcQ
doing apt-get update on google repository
downloading
http://people.debian.org/~bartm/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/latest-stable-veri
fied.txt
selected action = --install
After that it halts and does nothing else. Now, here comes the baffling
part:
I discovered that if I redirect the output of that command to a log, THE
SCRIPT WORKS PERFECTLY. The following changed script works when triggered by
the same .desktop launcher:
#!/bin/bash
update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install -verbose >>
/var/log/apt/updatepepper.log 2>&1
exit 0
The script above works in all machines, and the only difference is the
redirection of the output.
I am baffled and cannot find an explanation to this. I decided to report
because this could be an insidious bug that can have consequences in other
scenarios. Or maybe I am just missing something here.
Could you kindly shed some light in this issue?
Thanks,
Jamil Said
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Submitter describes solution for problem not in the package.
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