flashplugin-nonfree: 7.0.68 does not install/update

Bug #65759 reported by Carthik Sharma
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
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Original report follows:

From: Emmanuel Charpentier <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: flashplugin-nonfree: 7.0.68 does not install/update
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:16:18 +0200
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060728)

Package: flashplugin-nonfree
Version: 7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1
Severity: normal

The recent update to 7.0.68 does not install on my machine : the package
seems to be correctly downloaded, then a message related to update-rc.d
is displayed :

charpent@yod:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree
Password:
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 1 réinstallés, 0 à enlever et 0
non mis à jour.
1 partiellement installés ou enlevés.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 0o dans les archives.
Après dépaquetage, 0o d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Souhaitez-vous continuer [O/n] ? o
Paramétrage de flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1) ...
Downloading... done.
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
                -n: not really
                -f: force
dpkg : erreur de traitement de flashplugin-nonfree (--configure) :
 le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de
sortie d'état 1
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
charpent@yod:~$

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers dapper-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500,
'dapper-backports'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-27-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages flashplugin-nonfree depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.72ubuntu9 Debian configuration
management sy
ii gsfonts-x11 0.17ubuntu4 Make Ghostscript fonts
available t
ii libxext6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu4 X11 miscellaneous extension
librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.0-0ubuntu3 X11 miscellaneous utility
library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-0ubuntu3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii lsb-base 3.1-5ubuntu2 Linux Standard Base 3.1
init scrip
ii wget 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages flashplugin-nonfree recommends:
pn libesd0-alsa <none> (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  flashplugin-nonfree/httpget: true
  flashplugin-nonfree/not_exist:
  flashplugin-nonfree/http_proxy:
  flashplugin-nonfree/failed:
  flashplugin-nonfree/local:
  flashplugin-nonfree/delete: false

Revision history for this message
Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Please update and use ~dapper2.

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
Revision history for this message
Emmanuel Charpentier (charpent) wrote : Re: [Bug 65759] Re: flashplugin-nonfree: 7.0.68 does not install/update

Dear Sir,

Daniel T Chen a écrit :
> Please update and use ~dapper2.

Huh ? What does "use ~dapper2" means ?

Anyway, thank you for answering !

     Emmanuel Charpentier

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote :

Emmanuel,

What Daniel suggests is that instead of the current "7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1" version, you should update and use the version that ends with ~dapper2.

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