1) we're *not* sticking flashplugin-nonfree on the cd. Just. No.
Hmm, I don't really care if it is on the cd so much as I care that it installs 
as it did with feisty while using the livecd. If it wasn't on the livecd for 
feisty, then I don't really think it should be for gutsy either...

2) It's not in universe. it has never been in universe. it never *will* be in 
universe.
Ok, well that is fine, I guess all that really says is that feisty itself was 
never pulling it from universe either. That really isn't a big problem for 
me... Probably just a mistake by the previous commenter.

3) it's in multiverse, and we don't enable that by default (afaik).
Well, from the times I remember booting from the livecd with feisty, I don't 
recall multiverse ever being enabled in the sources.list. So I think you are 
probably right about that, but I do know the plugin still installed. So whether 
that means that clicking install plugin in firefox was somehow smart enough to 
pull the plugin from multiverse without it actually being enabled in the 
sources file and updated, I am not sure. What I am sure of is that whatever it 
was doing in feisty, it no longer is doing in gutsy, sadly...

3.5) No, apparently we *do* add multiverse by default now.
As I think I heard you say in the channel, that is probably true after an 
installation. And it did appear as though once I manually added the multiverse 
line in sources.list and updated that it finally could find the plugin, but 
what perplexes me is why the behavior has changed from feisty to gutsy. From 
the perspective of anyone used to being able to this behavior, gutsy will now 
seem like a downgrade. It is arguable whether anyone should be doing this on a 
livecd at all, but then again this seems like exactly the kind of thing a 
livecd SHOULD be allowing people to do. Especially for scenarios where people 
want to test Ubuntu and ensure that everything they need or want to do will 
work, BEFORE they install. Hopefully someone who knows more about what feisty 
was doing, and what changed in gutsy can look at this and get this resolved. I 
would also love if anyone else who still has a feisty cd, if they could boot 
and replicate the installation of the flash plugin and confirm for me that it 
really IS installing on feisty without enabling multiverse, because I am pretty 
sure it was. Regardless of whether it should have been doing that or not, the 
process was simpler and smoother in feisty especially to people new to Ubuntu.

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Gutsy RC1 LiveCD can't find flashplugin-nonfree when using install plugin on 
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