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I was going to file a bug report, until i decided it's quite possible that I'm missing something so I'll ask here first.


I installed Mageia, updated it, realized I didn't have the "media sources for install and update" set up properly, so I did that, and did another update.
Next, I decided to install flash player as well as its KDE plugin. the player plugin installed ok. the KDE plugin, I had trouble with.

flash-player-plugin-kde is a package in the official nonfree repository. Two updates are also available in the nonfree updates repository. When I try to install the core package, I cannot.
The software management gui is not very helpful... neither for the base package, nor its update.

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Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:

- flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.335-1.mga4.nonfree.i586

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Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:

- flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.394-1.mga4.nonfree.i586 (due to unsatisfied flash-player-plugin[== 11.2.202.394-1.mga4.nonfree])

By using urpmi in the terminal I got some additional details:

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# urpmi flash-player-plugin-kde -vv
getting lock on urpmi
using mirror http://mirror.nexcess.net/mageia/distrib/4/i586
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/Core Release (distrib4)/synthesis.hdlist.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/Core Updates (distrib6)/synthesis.hdlist.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/Nonfree Release (distrib14)/synthesis.hdlist.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/Nonfree Updates (distrib16)/synthesis.hdlist.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/Tainted Release (distrib24)/synthesis.hdlist.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/Tainted Updates (distrib26)/synthesis.hdlist.cz]
getting exclusive lock on rpm
found package(s): flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.335-1.mga4.nonfree.i586 flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.336-1.mga4.nonfree.i586 flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.341-1.mga4.nonfree.i586 flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.346-1.mga4.nonfree.i586 flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.346-1.1.mga4.nonfree.i586 flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.350-1.mga4.nonfree.i586 flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.356-1.mga4.nonfree.i586 flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.359-1.mga4.nonfree.i586 flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.378-1.mga4.nonfree.i586 flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.394-1.mga4.nonfree.i586
The following package cannot be installed because it depends on packages
that are older than the installed ones:
flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.394-1.mga4.nonfree
Continue installation anyway? (Y/n) Y
unlocking urpmi database
unlocking rpm database
While some packages may have been installed, there were failures.
The following package cannot be installed because it depends on packages
that are older than the installed ones:
flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.394-1.mga4.nonfree
Continue installation anyway?
#

Some additional information:
My installation is the default KDE for 32-bit / i586 processor



So.... what do I do next?

You are trying to install an old version of the plugin. Are you certain that you have the media sources configured correctly?

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_a ... rrectly.3F

If you do have the correct sources activated, and have updated your system, then install the most recent versions of the packages, which are:

flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.400-1.mga4.nonfree
flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.400-1.mga4.nonfree

Jim

Thanks Jim!

I went ahead & removed all my sources & clicked the add button to get a fresh set, and I made sure the following were enabled: Core Release, Core Updates, Nonfree Release, Nonfree Updates, Tainted Release, Tainted Updates. No updates were available.

flash-player-plugin-kde still only shows versions 11.2.202.335 and 11.2.202.394 in the Install & Remove Software gui.
urpmi tries to install 11.2.202.394-1 as well.


I went ahead & Googled the package as well and I can see there is an updated version available to Mageia... so I tried to select another mirror for Nonfree Updates, but the edit menu wasn't very helpful.

EDIT:
Ok, I'm adding a new media mirrror to the mirror list... I'll update this when that gets done


EDIT 2:
Ok, I fixed it by downloading the kernel.org ftp mirror's list.
Thanks Jim!
I speculate maybe one or 2 that were being selected by default and that I tried manually didn't have an updated package list yet.

How do I mark this as solved?

Please show the output of

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urpmq --list-media active --list-url

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks

doktor5000 wrote:Please show the output of

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urpmq --list-media active --list-url

It's just going to show the kernel.org ones now. I deleted all the others I had tried yesterday.