package flashplugin-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-installer

[Donald A. Tevault]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

This happened after upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 10.04.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: flashplugin-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-30.59-generic 2.6.32.29+drm33.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AptOrdering:
 flashplugin-installer: Install
 flashplugin-nonfree: Install
 flashplugin-installer: Configure
 flashplugin-nonfree: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 10 00:37:20 2011
ErrorMessage: conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-installer
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-installer

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #624259, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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