flashplugin-nonfree broken

[Christopher Biessener]

$ apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree
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).
$ 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 0 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]? y
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)

On 05/13/2010 10:56 AM, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:49:46AM -0500, Christopher Biessener wrote:
>> Synaptic will not fix it, it's output from "Complete Removal" follows:
>>
>>      dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--purge):
>>        Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
>>        reinstall it before attempting a removal.
>>      Errors were encountered while processing:
>>        flashplugin-nonfree
>>
>> The "Reinstall" option is greyed out.  I cannot reinstall it.  I cannot
>> remove it.  Any suggestions?
>
> What happens if you do:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree
>