Flash problem on ubuntu

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Soldato
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I just upgraded to ubuntu 9.10, and it screwed up flash. I ran firefox and noticed that it now seemed to be lacking flash, so i try download the .deb installer to get it working again.

I try double clicking the .deb but find out that doesnt work as it gives a file permissions error, so i try to check synaptic package manger to see if i can install using that, and it instantly gives an error about flash and no archive file or something then instantly closes.

So, after a quick google i find that to install the .deb file i just use sudo dpkg -- install ~/Desktop/install_flash_player_10_linux.deb the problem is, i get errors about no alternatives for iceape-flashplugin. then gives some warnings about old pre-removal scripting returned error exit status 2, then some more errors about that iceape thing then it aborts the upgrade.

So, what do I do now? 9.10 seems to have ****ed up flash, and who knows what else, I cant use package manager now as it closes right after displaying an error about flash. How do I get this all fixed fast?

If there is no simple way of fixing this quickly ill just get rid of ubuntu, its not worth the hassle of downloading upgrades that it tells me about if they are going to screw up my system.
 
Someone advised me to try dpkg - r adobe-flashplugin to get it removed and then try reinstall it, the problem is:

dpkg: error processing adobe-flashplugin (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistant state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
adobe-flashplugin

So it asks me to reinstall to try fix it, problem is, if i try to reinstall it I get an error too.
 
you can download the tar.gz version and put libflashplayer.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins/
firefox should pick it pick it up .
 
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Well I finaly managed to uninstall the damn corrupted adobe-flashplugin, even using --force-all wouldnt remove it. So in the end thanks to #ubuntu on irce.frenode.net i got this link: http://blog.ixti.ru/archives/6
The important bit of that link is:
The problem is that this package was built ONLY for Ubuntu. And before removing itself it tries to execute pre-remove action on every package listed in VARIANTS variable of /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm. So all we need to do is to com*ment out that variable. So after you will comment out it you’ll be able to remove it, e.g. with ‘dpkg --force-all --remove adobe-flashplugin‘:

So after commenting out that line, a force all removal worked, and as instructed by the irc chan i installed this time using aptitude and it seems to have worked.

I have no idea how the 9.10 patched managed to screw up flash, but at least its fixed now.
 
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