Comment 8 for bug 326609

What is the adobe-flashplugin package then? Should it be removed?

When removing any and all packages with the name flash in it, then
installing from the Adobe site it installs "adobe-flashplugin" not
"flashplugin-nonfree" Which are different, so when the update occurs it
tries to update "adobe-flashplugin" which has some serious problems.

dave@cerberus:~$ aptitude search adobe-flashplugin
i adobe-flashplugin - Adobe Flash Player plugin version
10
dave@cerberus:~$ aptitude search flashplugin-nonfree
c flashplugin-nonfree - Adobe Flash Player plugin
installer
p flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound - Adobe Flash Player platform
support librar
dave@cerberus:~$

To replicate the problem, remove all flash from the system. Goto
www.adobe.com click install flash, and use the .deb package option for
Linux. Then when that is installed, you will get an update prompt from
the system to update the adobe-flashplugin package, when you do this
upgrade it is hosed...

mathieg2 wrote:
> I've replicated this a few times - I have done 7 installations of ubuntu
> this week.
>
> sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
> sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
>
> clears the problem. Unexperienced users would not know to do this
>
> As a previous poster stated, it could be related to network manager
> going offline during upgrade
>
>