Comment 7 for bug 314637

I just ran into this. After upgrading from Intrepid, Synaptic had flashplugin-nonfree marked as installed, but without the files actually being installed (!). Attempting to reinstall via Synaptic just gave the message "download or license refused", with no option to accept the license.

In the end I had to dpkg-reconfigure debconf (following this suggestion: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=39636#39636), and un/reinstall via apt-get. Even then, apt-get asked me both questions *twice*.