Package 7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1 does not work

[Albert Astals Cid]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
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.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1) ...
Downloading... done.
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)

[wazyk (e-lemouss)]

I got the same today during upgrade.
Is the package faulty ?

[Dell Inspiron 6000 - ATI X300M - on Kubuntu Dapper]

[Maurizio Moriconi (bugman)]

Same error on different pc with dapper.

[Björn Röder (overgee)]

Confirmed.

[Gavin Hamill (gdh)]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:03:45 -0000
Maurizio Moriconi <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Bug 61378 has been marked a duplicate of this bug

Bah - just moments too late - story of my life =)

I did try to view the bugs assigned to this package before filing the
report, but couldn't find anything - obv I did something wrong :/

gdh

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

The problem seems to be line 35 of the postinst script (which has been automatically inserted by dh_installinit):

        update-rc.d flashplugin-nonfree multiuser >/dev/null

which isn't valid use of update-rc.d. Instead it should be something like:

        update-rc.d flashplugin-nonfree defaults >/dev/null

I'm not 100% if that puts it at the right place in the boot sequence, but it chose S20 here. If you want to you can edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree.postinst and change that line and it will allow apt to continue without failing. HOWEVER, as I said, I'm not sure that that is the "correct" fix.

[NeilGreenwood (neil-greenwood)]

This is to be the same problem as bug 61349, which specifies how to fix it.

Step-by-step instructions are included at replies 17 and 18 in the forum post at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261179. These are similar to Chris Jones' comment above.

[Juan Carlos Torres (jucato)]

Marking this as a duplicate of bug 61404 (explains what happened)