Flashplayer Broken on Ubuntu 10.04
May 1, 2010
After an ubuntu upgrade from 8.04LTS to 10.04LTS I had trouble with flashplayer. sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree gave:
The following packages will be REMOVED
flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 168kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
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)
I fixed this by doing:
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree.prerm sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq flashplugin-nonfree sudo dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq flashplugin-nonfree
