[K12OSN] Repo-problems installing "Get Flash"

[Eric Harrison]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Odin Hetland Nøsen wrote:

> There seems to be a problem when i try to install additional software - "Get Flash".
> After setting ut some sites it repeates the messages...
>
> "Setting up Package Sakcs
> Excluding Incompatible Archs
> Finished"
>
> ...about six times before quiting with error:
>
> "There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (4, 'Interrupted system call')>
>
> ERROR: something went wrong with 'up2date -i --nosig flash-plugin'
> Aborting :-(
> "
>
> Something wrong with my vmware-session or the repo? (Everything else works fine.)

The macromedia repo server seems to be down. Flash is not freely re-
distributable, I can't included in the k12ltsp repos - we must fetch 
it from the macromedia.mplug.org server.

-Eric