Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 9.0.21.55.2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
This report is for: flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.21.55.2 (NOT 7.0.68.0.1) The package (9.0.21.55.2) cannot be installed due to the following reasons: - It asks the user to locate the tar.gz from Macromedia without telling the user *which file* (file name). The user has downloaded the file last year, so he/she enters the path name. - The package then tells the user that the file cannot be located. The user is confused, but out of desperation presses Enter to download the file. - The package says it is downloading the file (even though squid does not log anything), then after a while a second screen appears and tells the user again that the file cannot be located. This time, it specifically asks the user "Have you already downloaded the install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz package from Macromedia?" (Note the file name... the user becomes more confused because the file so named is indeed present) - The package still cannot find the file no matter what the user does. Then the installation fails. - The user takes the extraordinary effort to unpack the deb file in /tmp and look inside control.tar.gz, and finds that it actually is looking for flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.21.55.2_i386.deb and not install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz. - The user proceeds to download the required file and retries. - When the package asks for the directory it is entered. - Then the install fails abruptly with Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.21.55.2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) without any further explanation. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.28-ow1 Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 (charmap=BIG5) Versions of packages flashplugin-nonfree depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy ii gsfonts-x11 0.20 Make Ghostscript fonts available t ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii wget 1.10.2-2 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages flashplugin-nonfree recommends: ii xfs 1:1.0.1-5 X font server -- debconf information: * flashplugin-nonfree/httpget: true * flashplugin-nonfree/not_exist: flashplugin-nonfree/http_proxy: * flashplugin-nonfree/local: * flashplugin-nonfree/delete: false flashplugin-nonfree/failed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
