Martin Pitt, thanks for working on this. I've utilized the non-Proposed release and this worked fine. However, I'll leave it to others to certify this is passed/failed as the issue appears environment or timing specific.
sudo apt -y install flashplugin-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: x-ttcidfont-conf ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs The following NEW packages will be installed: flashplugin-installer 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/6,838 B of archives. After this operation, 58.4 kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-installer. (Reading database ... 280227 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.621ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.621ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168) ... flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160512.1.orig.tar.gz Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160512.1.orig.tar.gz [27.1 MB] Fetched 27.1 MB in 1min 14s (362 kB/s) W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20160512.1.orig.tar.gz' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) Installing from local file /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20160512.1.orig.tar.gz Flash Plugin installed. Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.621ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 1.2.10ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.2.10ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1.2.10ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1538438 Title: apt-helper crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1538438/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
