Here's the apt-get output: aniv...@anivair-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-nonfree [sudo] password for anivair: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: flashplugin-nonfree: Depends: flashplugin-installer but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
So that blows. Contrinuing on anyway (because it can hardly hurt much) gives me: aniv...@anivair-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a aniv...@anivair-desktop:~$ aniv...@anivair-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree Suggested packages: konqueror-nsplugins ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs The following NEW packages will be installed: flashplugin-installer The following packages will be upgraded: flashplugin-nonfree 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/21.4kB of archives. After this operation, 61.4kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: flashplugin-nonfree E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) So far, no good. It looks like the package is so broken that I can neither install it nor remove it via apt-get. is there a way to remove it manually? (of course there is, but how do I do that without breaking apt-get?) -- package flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.159.0ubuntu1~hardy1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497633 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
