apt error

[Henri Girard]

try

sudo apt-get install --fix-missing
or sudo dpkg --configure -a (first)

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:56:09 +0200, 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?
>
> Thanks
> John L. Vifian



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