update-alternatives: error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/iceape-flashplugin corrupt: invalid status
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree
when attempting to perform an sudo apt-get upgrade on my box the following occurs:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up flashplugin-
Downloading...
--2010-07-21 20:38:00-- http://
Resolving archive.
Connecting to archive.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4739416 (4.5M) [application/
Saving to: `./adobe-
0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1% 47.0K 97s
...
4600K .......... .......... ........ 100% 1.38M=10s
2010-07-21 20:38:11 (465 KB/s) - `./adobe-
Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.
update-
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
----------------
System details
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: flashplugin-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 21 20:07:37 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-
summary: |
- package flashplugin-installer 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3 failed to - install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned - error exit status 2 + update-alternatives: error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/iceape- + flashplugin corrupt: invalid status |
That distro have reached EOL since a while; and such problem has been resolved long time ago.