Installation on Gutsy of flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.124.0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb results in a failure that never shows up to the user. You simply have no flash, and do not know why. Installing from the cli gives some information... Specifically that the binary is not there anymore. But from the GUI you get nothing. It needs an update, and better error handling. Workaround is to manually download and install from adobe.
~$ 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/18.2kB of archives.
After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 111545 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.124.0ubuntu1~gutsy1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.124.0ubuntu1~gutsy1) ...
Downloading...
--10:57:06-- 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... 96.17.194.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|96.17.194.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
10:57:07 ERROR 404: Not Found.
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
Can anyone please confirm if this problem also exists with the 64 bit version? This is the second time I have heard of this today.
* Flagging as medium importance.