flashplugin-nonfree broken

[Janne Jokitalo]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 01:10:29PM -0500, Christopher Biessener wrote:
> > Well, I believe that's the final resort, unless someone else comes up with a
> > better idea. You can find it in /var/lib/dpkg/status, but please PLEASE back it
> > up first. :)
> >
> >> I've also tried 'apt-get -m install dselect' because the manpage for
> >> apt-get -f recommends using dselect...   The -m flag did not work either.
> >
> > I'm not sure any front-end to dpkg resolves this for you. It's up to dpkg, but
> > sometimes even it becomes confused. If adding "--force-all" to the
> > above-mentioned dpkg command doesn't do the trick, then I would edit the package
> > list by hand. Good luck!
> Editing /var/lib/dpkg/status has cleared my problem.  Before I made the 
> edit I looked at the installed files list.  It didn't have anything but 
> its directories, so it was safe.

Okay, good to hear things work for you again.


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Jaska