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flashplugin-nonfree package

package flashplugin-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: 8.04 to 9.10 upgrade

Bug #482793 reported by Vasanth on 2009-11-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #429841: broken packaging: package flashplugin-nonfree failed to install/upgrade: (breaks upgrade). Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

While upgrading from 8.04 to 9.10, flashplugin would not get installed. Tried reinstalling again after a restart after upgrade, it still failed.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 15 01:59:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: no package named `flashplugin-installer' is installed, cannot configure
Package: flashplugin-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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Vasanth (mail-vasanth) wrote on 2009-11-14:

VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (9.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (76.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (12.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (76.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeXorgfixintrepidlog.gz Edit (374 bytes, application/x-gzip)

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Chris Johnston (cjohnston) wrote on 2009-11-15:

Try installing either adobe-flashplugin or flashplugin-installer

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Chris Johnston (cjohnston) wrote on 2009-11-15:

You need to enable multiverse for flashplugin-installer

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2009-12-20:

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 429841, 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.