Comment 9 for bug 398042

I also have this problem. I applied the patch but it did not help. It gives the error message:
patching file /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-installer.prerm
Hunk #1 FAILED at 27.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-installer.prerm.rej

The contents of file (/var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-installer.prerm.rej) are:

--- flashplugin-installer.prerm 2009-04-08 20:55:56.000000000 +0300
+++ flashplugin-installer.prerm 2009-07-22 11:17:03.625993396 +0300
@@ -27,16 +27,6 @@
   rm -rf /var/cache/flashplugin-installer-unpackdir
   rm -rf /var/cache/flashplugin-installer

- for p in $VARIANTS; do
- update-alternatives --remove "$p-flashplugin" /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so;
- done
- for p in $VARIANTS; do
- update-alternatives --remove "$p-flashplugin" /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so;
- done
- for p in $VARIANTS; do
- [ `update-alternatives --list "$p-flashplugin" | wc -l` = 0 ] && \
- update-alternatives --remove-all "$p-flashplugin"
- done
   ;;
  upgrade|deconfigure)
   update-rc.d -f flashplugin-installer remove >/dev/null 2>&1