furicle, try this: System -> administration -> software sources -> be sure than you have selected the "main", "universe", "restricted" and multiverse". Then go to the Updates tab -> check "security", "updates" and "proposed"
after that, do this in the terminal: sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: konqueror-nsplugins ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs The following NEW packages will be installed: flashplugin-nonfree 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/18.1kB of archives. After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree. (Reading database ... 145003 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.1_amd64.deb) ... Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12.1) ... Downloading... --15:21:06-- http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz => `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 88.221.186.70 Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|88.221.186.70|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3,036,127 (2.9M) [application/x-gzip] 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1% 52.30 KB/s 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 3% 28.06 KB/s [...] 2950K .......... .... 100% 32.34 KB/s 15:22:23 (39.04 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved [3036127/3036127] Download done. Flash Plugin installed. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-nonfree package fails to install with the following error: md5sum mismatch install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz The Flash plugin is NOT installed. Could be a new version of flash plugin released for download? + + + *** IMPORTANT NOTICE *** + The fix for this plugin has been released (let's hope that it will last and adobe won't change the md5sum again) + From the menu: + System -> Administration -> Software sources -> be sure than you have selected the "main", "universe", "restricted" and multiverse". + Then go to the Updates tab -> check "security", "updates" and "proposed" + Now "Close" and "Reload". + + after that, do this in the terminal: + sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree + sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree -- flashplugin-nonfree fails to install... new version? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173890 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
