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

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> I requested those files to debug the specific issue you had at the
> time. I requested the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* not a list
> of files in /etc/apt.d/* (which you posted)
>
For you I am posting the same message again the contents of files are
also in this message
the big files I posted on paste.ubuntu.com and small ones are inlined
in the forwarded message.


....snip..............
So here are the contents that you requested.
/etc/apt/sources.list  http://paste.ubuntu.com/507169/
trusted.gpg
secring.gpg
trustdb.gpg
I could not open even as root in vi.

directory /etc/apt/preferences.d
is blank
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove is http://paste.ubuntu.com/507170/

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01ubuntu is
APT
{
};

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/05aptitude is

aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern "^linux-image.*$ |
^linux-restricted-modules.*$ | ^linux-ubuntu-modules.*$";
aptitude::Get-Root-Command "sudo:/usr/bin/sudo";

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic is

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "0";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/15update-stamp
APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success {"touch
/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp 2>/dev/null || true";};

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20archive  is

APT::Archives::MaxAge "30";
APT::Archives::MinAge "2";
APT::Archives::MaxSize "500";

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20dbus

// Notify all clients to reload the cache
APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success { "[ ! -f
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket ] || /usr/bin/dbus-send --system
--dest=org.debian.apt --type=signal /org/debian/apt
org.debian.apt.CacheChanged || true"; };

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades is
http://paste.ubuntu.com/507172/

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf is

// Pre-configure all packages with debconf before they are installed.
// If you don't like it, comment it out.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99synaptic is
APT::Install-Recommends "true";

99update-notifier is

DPkg::Post-Invoke {"if [ -d /var/lib/update-notifier ]; then touch
/var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp; fi; if [ -e
/var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available ]; then echo >
/var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available; fi "; };

Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ are
google-talkplugin.list              google-talkplugin.list.save
medibuntu.list.distUpgrade  opera.list              opera.list.save
google-talkplugin.list.distUpgrade  medibuntu.list
medibuntu.list.save         opera.list.distUpgrade