Ubuntu 18 upgrade stopped on pepperflashplugin

Question

I was upgrading Ubuntu 16 to 18. During the installation process it stopped at:

Setting up pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.3+nmulubuntu1) ...

I know that flash is no longer supported but I'm in the middle of the installation. I waited for an hour but nothing has change.

Any ideas?

@GunnarHjalmarsson Thanks, but I don't care about flash, I am also not the OP, if you haven't noticed. — mikewhatever, Jan 25 '21 at 16:43
@mikewhatever: Flash is EOL. I noticed that you gave the OP a dubious advice considering the circumstances. Hence my comment. — Gunnar Hjalmarsson, Jan 25 '21 at 18:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 24 '21 at 20:34

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My idea is to be patient. The package system is not broken, it's just stalling since a maintainer script is trying over and over again to download the plugin from Adobe. It may take several hours before it gives up...

There is a dummy pepperflashplugin-nonfree package in xenial-proposed. It's a pity that it hadn't made it to xenial-updates before you started the version upgrade (see bug #1911463).

answered Jan 24 '21 at 20:34

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

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This post and the corresponding answer already exist... https://askubuntu.com/questions/1304984/configuring-dpkg-stops-processing-when-calling-an-http-request-to-adobe-flash-pl/1304992#1304992 (it'll just sit there and not fail - until the dummy is loaded manual cancel and remove of the package is a requisite.) – Thomas Ward Jan 24 '21 at 20:46
Fair enough @ThomasWard. This question and my answer doesn't add anything of importance. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Jan 24 '21 at 20:53

Ubuntu 18 upgrade stopped on pepperflashplugin

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