"installation failed" error while dist upgrading.

Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.63.5) ...
Downloading... done.
installation failed

Here is my output:

# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  mozilla-browser mozilla-firefox
Recommended packages:
  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
The following NEW packages will be installed
  flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/12.3kB of archives.
After unpacking 119kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 151079 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from .../flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.63.5_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.63.5) ...
Downloading... done.
return: 214: Illegal number: -1

It's /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin which fails:

# update-flashplugin
Downloading... done.
return: 214: Illegal number: -1

I can confirm this too

There are two problems with flashplugin-nonfree.

a) In sh, you must not return/exit negative values.
b) /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox is a symlink to /usr/lib/firefox; thus trying to set a symlink in *both* directories will of course not work.

This patch fixes both problems.

The patch from Aaron Isotton fixes this problem with update-flashplugin for me.

Claes

I can confirm this, Aaron's patch works fine here too. Thanks Aaron.

I have upgraded from Dapper to edgy,
I have the latest packages from Edgy repos as of today,
I installed the patch,

useri@lap:~$ sudo patch /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin update-flashplugin.patch
patching file /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin

useri@lap:~$ sudo update-flashplugin Downloading... done.
installation failed

What can be the problem?

I fixed the package last now.
Uploaded one hour ago, so it should be okay in a moment

7.0.63.5ubuntu1 is not working for me. I get a similar error ("return: 206: Illegal number: -1") even if I remove the package and then install it again.