Ubuntu, as we all know is a great operating system. Its built on the solid foundations of Debian, it has a vibrant and helpful community and a multimillionaire astronaut as a sugar daddy. Things are good.

Ubuntu aims to be ‘the’ definitive Linux distribution for ‘the rest of us’. A distribution which doesn’t require you to have a computer science degree to get it up and running, a distribution for the average Joe.

Unfortunately however it isn’t quite ready yet…

Anyone who has installed an Ubuntu desktop system recently, can’t have failed to realise that Flash is broken, and it’s broken quite badly.

The problem is, that Flash has released a new version of flashplayer, so when the Ubuntu nonfree flashplayer package downloads it, the md5 checksum doesn’t match and uh oh, it won’t install.

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