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

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 23:51 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 06/10/2010 21:49, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> > 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 :)
> >    
> 
> You like it?
> 
> You can have a lend of it for a short time :-) .
> 
> > 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.
> >    
> 
> But, but, but.....you don't keep moving the goal posts while the game is 
> in progress!

GREAT MINDS! I just did the dumpster dive on his old messages in the
trash file and found/quoted the very same statement! He's in denial that
he's done wrong and to prove it to himself, he'll plague the list with
mis-directions and obscurities. So, either he's incredibly inept or, as
he stated before, it's all in fun. Ric
  

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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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