flashplugin-nonfree 7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1post installation failure
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree
I encountered the following error message when installing the flashplugin-nonfree update released today:
wenzhuo@thinkpad:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
mozilla-browser mozilla-firefox ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
Recommended packages:
libesd0-alsa libstdc+
The following NEW packages will be installed
flashplugin-
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.8kB of archives.
After unpacking 168kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-
(Reading database ... 87195 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~
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-
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Although the flash plugins got successfully installed at /usr/lib/
Does Ubuntu do basic QA before releasing a package update?
I have had identical behaviour and error messages in Dapper Drake.
I also uninstalled the previous version of flashplugin-nonfree and tried a fresh install. That too failed.