package flashplugin-installer 10.1.102.65ubuntu0.10.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Vish Desai]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

None.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 10.1.102.65ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-server 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 9 15:08:29 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-installer 10.1.102.65ubuntu0.10.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

this is caused by conflicting third party software, nothing Ubuntu can do anything about:

update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so is already managed by xulrunner-addons-flashplugin.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of flashplugin-nonfree:
 flashplugin-nonfree depends on flashplugin-installer; however:
  Package flashplugin-installer is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

This is arguably the fault of the other package xulrunner-addons-flashplugin. But it seems to be a common problem and therefore I suggest for the Ubuntu package to add a runtime conflict so that these two packages cannot be installed at the same time.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I wonder if this is the same as bug 624259

[dino99 (9d9)]

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