Adobe flash plugin problem

Bruce Pieterse octoquadza at gmail.com
Thu Nov 3 17:10:05 UTC 2011


On Thu 03 Nov 2011 08:50:04 SAST, Pushparaj Shetty wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Pritam Baral<pritam at pritambaral.co.cc>  wrote:
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Chhatoi Pritam Baral
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:01, Pushparaj Shetty<shettypraj at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi I got the following while trying to install
>>> $ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
>>> [sudo] password for praj:
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't
>>> find an archive for it.
>>
>> do a
>> $ sudo apt-get update
>> and then try installing adobe-flashplugin
>>
>> If it still doesn't work, just go with the flashplugin-installer package.
>> (NB: It needs wget, so remember to configure wget for your proxy)
>>>
>>> Please help me to fix this. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10
>>> regards
>>> Pushparaj
>>> IIT Delhi
>>>
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> I tried apt-get install flashplugin-installer. I'm getting the same
> problem for any apt-get install<package-name>.
> please suggest a solution. I find that adobe-flash is purged.
> following is the status
> $ dpkg --get-selections | grep flash
> adobe-flashplugin				purge
> flashplugin-downloader				deinstall
>
> regards
> Pushparaj
>

Hi Pritam,

I'm not sure if this will help but try sudo apt-get install -f and then 
sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer.

-- 
Best of luck,

Bruce




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