Plugin upgrade via package management fails without purge

[Robert Simmons]

For the past three versions of the flash plugin installer, the install does not install properly. The package upgrade shows up in the automatic upgrades from the security upgrades repository. The package gets installed without visible errors, but once installed, the flash plugin does not appear at all in chrome/chromium's list of installed plugins. In fact, no flash plugin is listed at all. Chrome is not running when the install happens.

The only way to fix this is to apt-get purge flashplugin-installer and then install it again. After that, everything shows up in chrome properly.

I am using flashplugin version 10.3.183.10
Chrome version 14.0.835.186
Kubuntu 11.04
KDE 4.7.0

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 10.3.183.10ubuntu0.11.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 22 09:59:59 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[GeekWorking (geekworking)]

I am able to get it working with just a "reinstall" instead of a purge + install, however it has never (as far as I know) shown up in Chrome's plugin list. I am running the Dev branch of Chrome.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That distro have reached EOL since a while; and such problem has been resolved long time ago.