Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Han Soo Chang wrote: > > Probably the upstream problem was resolved and this was then allowed. > > When external influences cause success and failure outside of your > > carefully designed experiment it can cause a lot of confusion. > > I would like to think so, too. But, unfortunately, the error

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-03 Thread Han Soo Chang
Thank you very much for your very thoughtful comments, Bob. I truly appreciate them. Actually, I was about to unsubscribe from the list when I found them. :-) > Probably the upstream problem was resolved and this was then allowed. > When external influences cause success and failure outside of you

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Han Soo Chang wrote: > Here is what happened. > > $sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree > then I typed my password. > - > ERROR: wget failed to download This is unllkely to have anything to do with either sudo or su. I think this failure is unrelated. > I checked the following > $ LANG=

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-03, Han Soo Chang wrote: > > So, I wonder whether this is because > (1) I mishandled my set up of sudo The experts would need, I should think, to see your sudoers file to confirm the least fanciful of your hypotheses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-02 Thread Han Soo Chang
I thank you all for your help. But there seems to be a big misunderstanding. The issue is not how to use sudo or how to set up no-password. If you could see my original report, it would be clear. But it seems to have fallen off the thread. Here is what happened. $sudo apt-get install flashplu

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Indulekha wrote: > > I don't think it's a bug... > If you add your user to the sudo group and use the line: > > yourusername   ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > in /etc/sudoers, everything should work and you'll > get no password prompt. Of course, replace "youusername" >

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:37:16PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: > Thanks for your response. > > Yes, I installed sudo, and edited the confiugration file using visudo. > That was easy. > And I have been using sudo in all the cases where I needed to be root. > I believed that it gives me better secur

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-02 Thread Han Soo Chang
Thanks for your response. Yes, I installed sudo, and edited the confiugration file using visudo. That was easy. And I have been using sudo in all the cases where I needed to be root. I believed that it gives me better security. However, in this particular case of installing flashplugin-nonfree, s

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-01 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 05:07:26PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: > > Thanks for your help. > > > > It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get. > > > > The following command > > # apt-get install flashplug

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: > Thanks for your help. > > It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get. > > The following command > # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree > worked just fine. > > $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-01 Thread Han Soo Chang
Thanks for your help. It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get. The following command # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree worked just fine. $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree failed because the invoked script probably did not have the write permission for

Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:58:35 +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: > I recently installed debian squeeze, but I can't see youtube videos on > iceweasel. > > $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree > > Above command ends with a following error message. (My sources.list has > non-free included) > > ERRO

Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-30 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-04-30 07:46, Han Soo Chang skrev: If you try fetching it with wget: "wget http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc"; does it produce an error message? This is the message I get. I am inside a corporate LAN with a proxy server whose address is ns14:8080.

Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-04-30, Han Soo Chang wrote: > > Cannot write to `fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc' (Permission denied). This would mean you do not have the permission to write to the directory into which you are downloading the file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:58:35 +0900, Han wrote in message : > Hi, > > I recently installed debian squeeze, but I can't see youtube videos on > iceweasel. > > $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree ..I prefer "aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree", it solves things slightly differently. ..w

Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-29 Thread Han Soo Chang
Thanks for your help. > If you run "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" again, does it work now? > It gives me the same error. > Otherwise: > > If you paste the URL: > > > into a web-browser, do you see the (rahter

Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-29 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-04-30 06:58, Han Soo Chang skrev: $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.amd64.pgp.asc More information might be available at: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer Works for me. If you r

Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-04-29 Thread Han Soo Chang
Hi, I recently installed debian squeeze, but I can't see youtube videos on iceweasel. $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree Above command ends with a following error message. (My sources.list has non-free included) ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-