This is not a duplicate of: askubuntu.../failure-to-download-extra-data-files-flashplugin-installer nor of askubuntu .../how-do-i-stop-failure-to-download-extra-data-files-error-with-pepflashpluginin.
The first link is the closest but the accepted answer does not work.
The Error Screen
The Recommended Solution
sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-installer
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
The new errors from apt-get
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
bbswitch-dkms dkms libcuda1-361 nvidia-prime
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
x-ttcidfont-conf ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
flashplugin-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,782 B of archives.
After this operation, 59.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 flashplugin-installer amd64 11.2.202.635ubuntu0.16.04.1 [6,782 B]
Fetched 6,782 B in 0s (17.6 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-installer.
(Reading database ... 336994 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.635ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.635ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168.1) ...
flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160913.1.orig.tar.gz
Err:1 http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160913.1.orig.tar.gz
Could not open file /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20160913.1.orig.tar.gz - open (2: No such file or directory) [IP: 91.189.92.191 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160913.1.orig.tar.gz Could not open file /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20160913.1.orig.tar.gz - open (2: No such file or directory) [IP: 91.189.92.191 80]
E: Download Failed
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.635ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
This problem seems to have ocurred after I removed google-chrome-beta
but kept the regular google-chrome
. Google chrome works fine for watching TV shows with pepper flash plug-in but it would be nice to keep firefox as a backup browser if chrome goes down. I believe firefox needs the separate flashplugin.
Is there a glitch in canonical somewhere?
Should I just apt-get remove purge
flashplugin-installer and not bother apt-get install
it again?
PS the ca.
prefix on ubuntu.com
website name means Canada servers for Canonical and has never been a problem before.
flashplugin-installer
simply be removed instead of fixing the download problem.adobe-flashplugin
package.sudo apt install flashplugin-installer
made all the errors go away. Thanks! (Care to post an answer so I can mark it solved?)