problem in installing flash on lucid 10.04 64 bit "Package adobe flash is virtual"

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 06/10/2010 21:01, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jordon Bedwell<jordon at envygeeks.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:13 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Alan Pope<alan at popey.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6 October 2010 10:32, Tapas Mishra<mightydreams at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Can not install 'flashplugin-installer' (E:Unable to correct problems,
>>>>>> you have held broken packages.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> What happens if you run:-
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>>    flashplugin-installer: Depends: nspluginwrapper (>=
>>>> 0.9.91.4-2ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
>>>>                           Depends: ia32-libs (>= 2.2ubuntu18) but it is
>>>> not going to be installed
>>>> E: Broken packages
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Are you on Maverick still? With x64?
>>>
>>>
>> No.
>>
>
> It's like having teeth pulled without an anaesthetic.......but a lot
> better than predicting the future without a crystal ball....
>
Nice analogy :)
Ok I figured out Alan had rightly pointed I was restoring the backup
from a previous partition and in that /etc/apt file the previous files
were the ones which were of mavercik in my old experiment hence I feel
this over wrote the headers of lucid and I faced this problem.
I have just formatted my hard disk by the time of writing this message on list.