I've just installed Lucid and come across the same problem. The machine is within a corporate network and needs to go via a http proxy to get to the internet (to download the flash plugin). Despite having the $http_proxy environment variable set, and the gnome proxy settings correctly set, the flashplugin-installer does not seem to use the proxy and therefore failed.
$> sudo aptitude reinstall flashplugin-installer ... Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.0.45.2ubuntu1) ... Downloading... --2010-06-03 14:00:26-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.0.45.2.orig.tar.gz Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33 Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... failed: No route to host. download failed The Flash plugin is NOT installed. ... Using socksify (and therefore going via the corporate socks proxy) solved this for me: $> sudo socksify aptitude reinstall flashplugin-installer flashplugin-installer needs to be modified to use proxy settings. -- [lucid] flashplugin-installer doesn't work with Firefox 3.6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532542 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
