flashplugin-nonfree update fails with update-rc.d error

[Eduardo Alvarenga]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

Updating to the latest flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1) gives me an error just after the license agreement GUI:

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After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
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)
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I'll stick with flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.63.3ubuntu3_i386.deb until this update package gets fixed.

Regards,

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Eduardo Alvarenga

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report
any further bugs which you find.

[Juan Carlos Torres (jucato)]

Marked as a duplicate of bug 61404 (explains what happened)