Here the command to replicate that: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer && sudo /usr/lib/update- notifier/package-data-downloader
This should skip the second download because it was already successful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to flashplugin-nonfree in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391347 Title: Flashplugin-installer forces to download extra files twice Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu release: all Package version: 11.2.202.411ubuntu0.14.04.1 On our machines, which we host behind a firewall and proxy, we have seen constant popups of the update-notifier for "Failure to download extra data files" even when the Flashplugin-installer installation was successful. I digged deeper into this problem and have seen that the triggers for update-notifier-common are getting executed by the installer, but there is no file created at /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data- downloads/flashplugin-installer. So when `/usr/lib/update-notifier /package-data-downloader` is executed via cron.daily, it tries to download the file again and if successful creates the above status file. That means that for each and every installation / upgrade of Flash the extra files are getting downloaded twice from the remote location! This causes lots of extra traffic, and can fail due to the reason below. The reason why it fails for us, are the proxy settings and that cron.daily does not inherit our proxy settings from /etc/environment. But that is already filed as another bug and should not be covered here. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1391347/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
