[sf-lug] jim unsatisfied with apt-get and adobe flash and other things

Sun Nov 23 08:01:50 PST 2008

first, many thanks, asheesh. 
second, how do you learn all that helpful stuff? 

third, attached is a copy of the 
/etc/apt/sources.list 
file that came with my installation of 
ubuntu 8.04 

* note i've added 
# linux.csua.berkeley.edu 
* to the very bottom of the file 
* here's what happened before i put the comment delimiter 
* at the head of that line 
* Synaptic Package Manager reports An error occured: 
E: Type 'linux.csua.berkeley.edu' is not known on line 61 in source
list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
* what is a "repository dialog" and how to go to it? 

>> what does "Size mismatch" mean and how to proceed?
> Your mirror is broken, or if not the mirror, your 
> connection to the mirror.
* thanks, v. helpful; more helpful than their help string. 

> Trying to "jump" hoops is the wrong approach, IMHO; 
> fix the root cause and everything should slide into place.
* how to discover the root cause in this case? <--------
* by jumping hoops" i meant using apt-get at the command 
* line to get the four individual components mentioned 
* in the error message complaint list. i managed to get 
* only one of the four (see next section for the three 
* i didn't get). 

> What is "adobe-flashplugin"? 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=adobe-flashplugin 
> reports no results.
* well, this is embarrassing as well as frustrating. 
*    i'm trying to help some impoverished musician 
* update her web site; her resources want $100 per hour. 
* her web site works fine when accessed with some operating
* system with its native browser, but it doesn't respond 
* when i try firefox 2.0.0.18 on ubuntu 8.04. the site 
* returned a complaint that i should upgrade flash. 
*    hoping to be a good boy, i installed gnash instead 
* but got the same results: session connection then freezing. 
*    in dispair, i tried to uninstall gnash, but cannot 
* succeed. the Synaptic Package Manager shows gnash and 
* gnash-common with a black box in the S column and 
* gnash-cygnal and gnash-tools with empty boxes in the 
* S column. i've tried getting rid of gnash in several 
* ways, at one point i'd managed to get gnash-cygnal and 
* gnash-tools gone, but here they are back. 
*    also in (greater) dispair i tried to install "flash" 
* from the adobe website: this is debian flash for ubuntu 
* 8.04, according to the adobe flash pulldown list. the 
* install begins but then chokes with the following complaints 
* (used to be four complaints, but i got libcurl3). 
 adobe-flashplugin depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0); however:
  Version of libcairo2 on system is 1.4.10-1ubuntu4.4. <---- 1 
 adobe-flashplugin depends on libnss3-1d; however:
  Package libnss3-1d is not installed. <----- 2 
 adobe-flashplugin depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.1); however:
  Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.18.3-0ubuntu1. <---- 3 
dpkg: error processing adobe-flashplugin (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

> try instaling flashplugin-nonfree - 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=flashplugin-nonfree 
> shows that is packaged by Ubuntu.
* i tried 
# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree 
* and got 
...<bunch of messages to STDOUT>...
07:46:50 (159.72 KB/s) - `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz' saved
[3044538/3044538]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.

* i shut down firefox and restarted it then tried to load 
http://www.castlesinspain.com 
* and got the same results: initial loading then freezing. 
* using the firefox menu Tools > Add-ons shows only 
Twitbin 1.5 
ubufox 0.4~beta1 
* using the Add-ons dialog to get extensions shows 
* nothing that might relate to flashiness. 
* i'll restart the box and see if something improves. 

more thanks, 
jim 

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 08:50 -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, jim wrote:
> 
> >
> >   i'm doing the same things over and over and
> > getting nowhere. i'm going to stop that and do
> > nothing until i get some clue as to what i can
> > do differently.
> 
> Okay.
> 
> > Upgrades fail:
> > standard upgrades show three things to get,
> > i click the doit button, time goes by,
> > activity bars show action, and finally:
> > W: Failed to fetch
> > http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip-data_2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.1_all.deb
> >  Size mismatch
> > W: Failed to fetch
> > http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hplip_2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.1_i386.deb
> >  Size mismatch
> > W: Failed to fetch
> > http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hplip/hpijs_2.7.7
> > +2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.1_i386.deb
> >  Size mismatch
> >
> > what does "Size mismatch" mean and how to proceed?
> 
> Your mirror is broken, or if not the mirror, your connection to the 
> mirror.  ("Size mismatch" means the downloaded file's size != the metadata 
> recorded for that file.)  Try linux.csua.berkeley.edu instead of 
> us.archive.ubuntu.com; if that fixes things, then you know the problem was 
> with your mirror.
> 
> What release of Ubuntu is this?  Does your sources.list match your 
> release?  In the future, it's best to attach your /etc/apt/sources.list 
> (and the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* ) when asking for help 
> about APT stuff.
> 
> > Getting adobe-flash for firefox fails:
> >   as to getting adobe flash, i jumped one of the
> > earlier hoops by getting libcurl3 installed, but
> > none of the others:
> 
> Trying to "jump" hoops is the wrong approach, IMHO; fix the root cause and 
> everything should slide into place.
> 
> > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobe-flashplugin:
> > adobe-flashplugin depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0); however:
> 
> What is "adobe-flashplugin"?
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=adobe-flashplugin reports no 
> results.
> 
> Do you have some weirdo non-Ubuntu sources in your sources.list?  If so, 
> comment them out for a moemnt and try instaling flashplugin-nonfree - 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=flashplugin-nonfree shows that 
> is packaged by Ubuntu.
> 
> Does that fix all your problems?
> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 
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