Flashplugin-nonfree problems (FIXED)

[Josh]

A couple of days ago the update notifier had a couple of updates. One of them was for flashplugin-nonfree. The updater froze and I had to kill it. Afterwards it was locked, but dpkg --configure -a fixed it and synaptic and adept work fine; exept I can't get the flashplugin to download/install, even using apt-get. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Josh

This is what I get using the console

:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1) ...
Downloading... ++++ FAILED.
automatic installation failed due to network problems or upstream changes
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
                -n: not really
                -f: force
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[analyticalman]

Re: Flashplugin-nonfree problems

Me too - exactly the same - there is obviously some error with the package and I expect it'll be fixed in the repository before too long so don't worry

[Josh]

Re: Flashplugin-nonfree problems

Thanks. That's actually kinda reassuring. I can do without flash for a few days, as long as my kubuntu isn't broken.

Josh

[kubicle]

Re: Flashplugin-nonfree problems

Thanks. That's actually kinda reassuring.

A search would have reassured you a lot quicker ...there are some 4-5 threads describing the problem and a workaround.

And as Jucato has now pointed out, the fixed package has been released.

[Rog131]

Re: Flashplugin-nonfree problems



Topic: Problems with install of flashplayer
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=9178.0

Topic: flashplugin-nonfree update problem
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=9172.0

Topic: flashplugin-nonfree
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=9184.0