[ubuntu-uk] Flash 10 upgrade problems on Karmic

[Rob Beard]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Not sure if anyone else has seen this.  I just installed Google Chrome 
> and found that there were about 400 odd updates which I needed to 
> install.  As far as I can tell Chrome installed fine.
>
> So I went ahead and did the upgrade, however it failed on the 
> adobe-flashplugin package.
>
> The output from apt-get is here: http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/m45e4ec2b
>
> Reading through it, it appears there is a problem with no alternatives 
> for iceape-flashplugin (which doing a search for I can't find such a 
> package).
>
> This is what it comes up with:
>
> update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for iceape-flashplugin.
> update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for iceape-flashplugin.
> dpkg: warning: old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
>
> I've tried removing adobe-flashplugin, I've tried forcing a removal, 
> I've tried reinstalling it and I've also tried clearing the apt cache 
> and re-downloading it but it comes up with the same thing every time.
>
> I was able to remove Google Chrome but I'm still getting this problem.  
> Also, not sure if it's related but now Firefox will only give me the 
> option to search using Ask.com rather than Google.
>
> So I'm stumped.  Other than blatting Ubuntu and reinstalling from 
> scratch (which I really don't fancy doing, not at least until Karmic is 
> fully released next week) I'm not sure what do to.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> Ta,
>
> Rob
>   
Panic over, I found this which fixed it:

http://blog.ixti.ru/archives/6

Rob