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

Tom Haddon tom at greenleaftech.net
Sun Nov 23 20:45:38 PST 2008 

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 08:01 -0800, jim wrote:
> 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 

Hmm, that's strange. Your sources.list is pointing to gutsy (7.10) not
hardy (8.04). Are you sure it was 8.04 and not 7.10? What does the
output of "cat /etc/lsb-release" show?

I would try doing a "sudo apt-get update" before trying to
install/remove any packages. I suspect what's happened is that there
have been security updates since it downloaded the last version of the
package metadata, and that's why it's complaining about the size of
things not being what it's expecting. 

Cheers, Tom

> 
> * 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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