I am installing from the terminal with

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

it asks for my password, installs the package, and almost immediately
the a window pops up titled "Information available" that states

<quote>
Failure to download extra data files

The following packages requested additional data downloads after package
installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be
processed.

flashplugin-installer

The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again 
now.  Running this command requires an active Internet connection.
</quote>

When I click on the button "Run this action now" I am asked to enter my
password, then a terminal window pops up for an instant and then
disappears. It looks like there's an error message displayed in that
terminal window but it disappears too quickly for me to read it.  That's
it, the file with the plugin is not downloaded.

One thing I now noticed is that when I get a root shell with 'sudo
bash', wget does not work with my proxy, while it works fine from my
user account. Maybe that is actually the problem?

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  After upgrading to 12.04, flash doesn't seem to be installed to
  Firefox even though the package is.

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