apt error

[Hawkwind]

On 9/20/06, John L Vifian <jongleur at liripipe.com> wrote:
>
> today the nice little adept notifier applet said I I had new things I
> could
> install which I dutifully did.
>
> One of these was flashplugin-nonfree (multiverse?) and it failed to
> install
> with adept.
>
> I tried apt with the following results:
>
> jlv at jlv:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Suggested packages:
>   mozilla-browser mozilla-firefox msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
> Recommended packages:
>   libesd0-alsa libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   flashplugin-nonfree
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/15.8kB of archives.
> After unpacking 168kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
> (Reading database ... 153589 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree
> (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1) ...
> Downloading...  done.
> usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
>        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN]
>        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
>                 -n: not really
>                 -f: force
> dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> flashplugin-nonfree
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> jlv at jlv:~$
>
> suggestions?



It's a known issue and there will hopefully be an updated, working package
released later today or tomorrow.  There have been many bug reports on it
already as well.  Best just to skip the update of flashplugin-nonfree for
now and do all of the rest of the updates.


Thanks
> John L. Vifian
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With kind regards,

Cliff Wade (Hawkwind)
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