unable to install Adobe Flash Player on 64 bit Ubuntu

which application are you using to install that package? Maybe you also have an adobe-flashplugin package installed? remove that first. also try to remove flashplugin-nonfree first.

This bug is reproducible on a LiveCD from 20090414.2

I use ubufox to install flash plugin, which is the recommended way to do it.

this is reproducible on a freshly booted CD, so there are no other applications installed.

i can run

apturl "apt:flashplugin-installer?section=multiverse"

on my real jaunty install.

does that work on the latest liveCDs?

this still does not work on the latest 64 bit 20090420.1 liveCD.

I am attaching the screenshot with the error message.

ok. but it works on a real install, right?

can you please add multiverse in /etc/apt/sources.list in your live session:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

and paste the output you see there?

Thanks!

here is the output:

$ sudo apt-get update
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release amd64 (20090420.1) jaunty/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release amd64 (20090420.1) jaunty/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Sources
Reading package lists... Done
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  flashplugin-installer: Depends: nspluginwrapper (>= 0.9.91.4-2ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: ia32-libs (>= 2.2ubuntu18) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

so it looks like flashplugin-installer depends on nspluginwrapper and ia32-libs which are present in 'universe' repositry which is not enabled by default.

I assume that the same bug is also present on a newly installed Ubuntu 9.04 system, where by default 'universe' is disabled, and ubufox enables only 'multiverse'.

ok this is a dupe of bug 363798; you need to manually add universe on livecd as it seems.