Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

package flashplugin-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-installer

Bug #448555 reported by mrpurple on 2009-10-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #429841: broken packaging: package flashplugin-nonfree failed to install/upgrade: (breaks upgrade). Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

i tryed in ubuntu 9.10 64 bit to instal the adobe flash payer from synaptic but i get
"E: /var/cache/apt/archives/flashplugin-installer_10.0.32.18ubuntu1_amd64.deb: conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-installer
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.32.18ubuntu1_amd64.deb: conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-nonfree"

ProblemType: Package
AptOrdering:
flashplugin-installer: Install
flashplugin-installer: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 11 10:51:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-installer
Package: flashplugin-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-installer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64

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mrpurple (mrpurple) wrote on 2009-10-11:

Dmesg.txt Edit (57.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (19.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Ludwin Janvier (lud-janvier) wrote on 2010-01-12:

You seem to have a package "adobe-flashplugin" installed. Please uninstall this package before trying to install flashplugin-nonfree or flashplugin-installer.