[Bug 853512] Re: Adobe Flash plug-in (flashplugin-installer) shown but not installable

[Joel Schopp]

Hit the same problem, maybe with a twist:

root at jschopp-ThinkPad-W520:/home/jschopp# apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 flashplugin-installer : Depends: flashplugin-downloader
                         Depends: nspluginwrapper but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

root at jschopp-ThinkPad-W520:/home/jschopp# apt-config dump|grep Archit
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Architectures "";
APT::Architectures:: "amd64";
APT::Architectures:: "i386";
root at jschopp-ThinkPad-W520:/home/jschopp# apt-cache policy flashplugin-downloader flashplugin-installer
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 10.3.183.10ubuntu3
  Version table:
     10.3.183.10ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/multiverse amd64 Packages
flashplugin-downloader:i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 10.3.183.10ubuntu3
  Version table:
     10.3.183.10ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/multiverse i386 Packages
     10.3.183.10ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root at jschopp-ThinkPad-W520:/home/jschopp#

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Title:
  Adobe Flash plug-in (flashplugin-installer) shown but not installable

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  "Adobe Flash plug-in" (flashplugin-installer 10.3.183.7ubuntu1) is
  displayed in Ubuntu Software Center.

  Clicking "Install" does nothing except print this at the console, if you launched it from a console:
  ------------
  2011-09-18 22:58:53,362 - softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache - WARNING - broken packages encountered while getting deps for flashplugin-installer
  2011-09-18 22:58:54,472 - softwarecenter.backend - ERROR - error in _on_trans_finished 'Error: Package dependencies cannot be resolved
  This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time.

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  flashplugin-installer: Depends: flashplugin-downloader but it is not going to be installed
  '
  2011-09-18 22:58:55,942 - softwarecenter.backend - WARNING - _on_trans_error: Transaction failed: None
   The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  flashplugin-installer: Depends: flashplugin-downloader but it is not going to be installed
  ------------

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.23.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Sep 18 22:54:51 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64+mac (20110705.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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