I got through all the steps on this web page but then got the message "failed to download repository information, check your internet connection"
Harold On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, November 11, 2016 05:59 AM, Peter Flynn wrote: > >> On 11/10/2016 09:55 PM, Bruno Benitez wrote: >> >>> I dont know why it would say that. The package still exists in yakkety >>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/flashplugin-installer >>> >> >> Could be a transient problem with update? Occasionally a sources.list >> entry references a wrong file or a misspelled server name. The >> maintainers are very quick to fix errors, but sometimes if you hit it at >> the wrong time, you don't get a complete list. Rare but possible. >> >> ///Peter >> >> > IIRC, flashplugin-installer tries to download the plugin from adobe which > they say is no longer (officially) supported. > > Can you try if adding the canonical partner repo to your sources.list > works? (I'm still on trusty so I don't know whether it's still true for > xenial.) > > See https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.html > > Regards, > -- st > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm > an/listinfo/xubuntu-users >
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