flashplugin-nonfree broken

[Janne Jokitalo]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:12:43AM -0500, Christopher Biessener wrote:
> $ apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree
<snip>
> 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)

Please, don't top-post. I'm tired of re-organizing the posts, so I deleted the
earlier discussion, which is always a loss for someone who reads in midst of
thread.

Okay, so that didn't work. Try:

$ sudo dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq flashplugin-nonfree


-- 
Jaska