[Bug 497633] Re: package flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.159.0ubuntu1~hardy1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.

[Anivair]

Here's the apt-get output:

anivair at anivair-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-nonfree
[sudo] password for anivair: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  flashplugin-nonfree: Depends: flashplugin-installer but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).


So that blows.  Contrinuing on anyway (because it can hardly hurt much) gives me: 

anivair at anivair-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
anivair at anivair-desktop:~$


anivair at anivair-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
Suggested packages:
  konqueror-nsplugins ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-installer
The following packages will be upgraded:
  flashplugin-nonfree
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/21.4kB of archives.
After this operation, 61.4kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--remove):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


So far, no good.  It looks like the package is so broken that I can neither install it nor remove it via apt-get.  is there a way to remove it manually?  (of course there is, but how do I do that without breaking apt-get?)

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package flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.159.0ubuntu1~hardy1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should  reinstall it before attempting a removal.
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