upgrades from oneiric beta-1 installs missing multiarch support

[terry b]

I did a fresh install of Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 from the Alternate installer CD using the AMD64 architecture..

When I tried to install flash it failed. Installing flashplugin-nonfree or flashplugin-installer gave the following errors:

[terry b (tbohaning-gmail)]

# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 flashplugin-nonfree : Depends: flashplugin-installer but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 flashplugin-installer : Depends: flashplugin-downloader but it is not installable
                         Depends: nspluginwrapper but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 flashplugin-installer : Depends: flashplugin-downloader but it is not installable
                         Depends: nspluginwrapper but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The more that I look at this is appears that the flashplugin-downloader is missing....

[terry b (tbohaning-gmail)]

Just as a test I pulled down the flash 11 RC1 (version 11.0.r1.129) from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11/

It also has a dependency on libkutils4

[Wes (wessjunk)]

I am also on 11.10 beta 1, and64 architecture, with the same problem.

(and when installing from the software center, it fails silently...)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Beta 1 was meant to enable multiarch automatically for new installs and upgrades, but a bug prevented this from happening for new installs. We should fix this up by having dpkg take ownership of this file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package dpkg - 1.16.0.3ubuntu4

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dpkg (1.16.0.3ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Add /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch as a conffile on amd64, so that users
    are guaranteed to always have it after upgrade even if they don't use
    update-manager for the upgrade itself. Also fixes up the problem of
    systems installed at 11.10 beta 1 missing the file due to an installer
    bug. LP: #846451.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:40:04 -0700