update-alternatives: error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/iceape-flashplugin corrupt: invalid status

[Brett Sutton]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

when attempting to perform an sudo apt-get upgrade on my box the following occurs:

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3) ...
Downloading...
--2010-07-21 20:38:00-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.53.64.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4739416 (4.5M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `./adobe-flashplugin_10.1.53.64.orig.tar.gz'

     0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1% 47.0K 97s

...

 4600K .......... .......... ........ 100% 1.38M=10s

2010-07-21 20:38:11 (465 KB/s) - `./adobe-flashplugin_10.1.53.64.orig.tar.gz' saved [4739416/4739416]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.
update-alternatives: error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/iceape-flashplugin corrupt: invalid status
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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System details
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 21 20:07:37 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-installer 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[dino99 (9d9)]

That distro have reached EOL since a while; and such problem has been resolved long time ago.