adobe-flashplugin is missing or corrupted

Can you pleaase provide the output of:

dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf; uname -a

Thanks

i don't get what you mean??......I"m a beginner user @ ubuntu. I've only been using UBUNTU for a year. How to I find out the output??

When I want to Update i receive this message about ADOBE-FLASHPLUGIN
" The package 'adobe-flashplugin' is in an inconsistent state and needs to be reinstalled, but no archive can be found for it. Please reinstall the package manually or remove it from the system."

Then I can't Reinstall it because it says it can't.

Its a terminal command

You can access the terminal by pressing alt+f2
type: gnome-terminal
press enter
paste the command into the terminal and press enter you will get an output
copy the output using the mouse and paste the output here as an update

PASTE WHAT COMMAND??....please bare with me, i know it can seem that i'm not a Tech person but please have patience with me. Thank You

Here is the output I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

" rFR adobe-flashplugin 10.0.22.87-1 Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10 "

Its not a case of being a "tech person", its a case of reading the instructions and running them. You don't have to be a "tech person" to be able to do that.

ok thats not good.

ok run this command:

sudo apt-get --purge remove adobe-flashplugin; sudo dpkg -P adobe-flashplugin; sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Should be ok now.

I run that command and this comes up"[sudo] password for "username" " and i can't type anything else, it won't let me.
Thanks for the help so far I really Appreciate it!!

Ok I figured it out now this comes up
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
dpkg: error processing adobe-flashplugin (--purge):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 adobe-flashplugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
------------------------------------

and it doesn't fix my problem obviously.
What do I do Next???
 thank you.

sudo apt-get --reinstall install adobe-flashplugin

Then run my previos command. You have a damaged package which is screwing stuff up. This is the massive weakness in package based systems.

ok I ran that command but this still comes up
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
-------------------------------------------------
so what do I do now?, can I fix the package Manually??
or what else can I do??

Is there any way to go back to the time in the system when the package wasn't screwed up???

No unfortunately you need to get it reinstalled

try:

sudo dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/adobe-flashplugin*

Will force install the deb and get you squared up

ok I did that and now this comes up
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dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/adobe-flashplugin (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/adobe-flashplugin
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and I don't know if this problem is going to be fixable but I've been thinkin for a long time to switch back to windows Xp and I was wondering If You know where I can buy it and if You can help me find out what version I need for my Computer and also how to install it....that is. only if I can'y fix this problem. The Version Of windows I had For this Computer was " Windows Xp Media Center Edition 2005".

Thanks For Your Help so far!!!

Oh Now I tried to download "Flash Player" from ubuntu and this comes up
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E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.
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and I can't Add or Remove software of any type becoause that message comes up!!!
PLEASE HELP!! A>S>A>P>
Thanks!!

Try this :

Go to the System menu, choose Administration, choose Synaptic package manager.

After entering your own password on the Dialog box, enter flashplugin in the search field (verify that in the left-down column the category ALL is selected - should be by default). It should show up a few packages. If you can locate something like flashplugin-nonfree with a green-colored square, you can then right-click on the package to show-up a list of actions. Then you ccan choose to suppress the desired package, or reinstall it or to install it (after suppressing completely). You need an active internet connection, of course.

One alternative choice instead of going back to Windows XP (ang buy it) would be to try to install Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope which might work better, until problems with 9.10 get sorted and solutions found out.

Ok This is A reply For -Vu Do Quynh -----------
Ok yeah Itried going to Synaptic package manager and all it tells me @ start up "E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report." and then once I close that Error report , it closes Synaptic package manager also , so I can't even access Synaptic package manager.
Thanks For the help!!!
And if you have any other helpful thing to tell me please feel free to do so!!

OK.

try this (I'm not sure of it because I never had to solve a problem like yours)

Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)

Type and launch the command

sudo aptitude keep-all (this is to try to suppress all actions on the flashplugin package)

then (in error messages appear report them - if nothing appears then it sounds that everything is ok) type the command

sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree (here the action y/N will depends on the output... : if it proposes you to install the package, answer Yes (Y) and after that you should see in the terminal the downloading of the Flash plugin package (from the Adobe web site) at 50K per line.

Hope that helps.

Ok this is a reply to "Vu Do Quynh"
I did what you said but all it said was this:
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-installer{a} flashplugin-nonfree
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  adobe-flashplugin
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 229kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
Writing extended state information... Done
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download
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And it didn't solve my problem, and What is the difference between Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope ???How do I know its going to solve the problem or not have the same problem?

ok

Try

sudo aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree (to try to remove it completely)

and

sudo aptitude purge adobe-flashplugin (to try to remove it compeltely)

Then try

sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree (to try to reinstall)

If it doesn't work, copy here the content of the command

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Re To:Vu Do Quynh
I tried whay u said and this came up for the first command"
-----------
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  adobe-flashplugin
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
Writing extended state information... Done
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download
----------------
and I tried the second command after and this came up:
----------------
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flashplugin-installer{a} flashplugin-nonfree
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  adobe-flashplugin
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 229kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
Writing extended state information... Done
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download
---------------------
pleez keep helping
thanks For the help!!!!

This solved my problem!!!!
I give you a Thousand THANKS YOUS!!!!!!
YOU REALLY ARE A LIFE SAVER!!

If you want to avoid all this crap you can simply download the tar.gz from adobe's website and put the .so file in ~/.mozilla/plugins

You will have to manually update the plugin yourself by checking the site. There is also a 64bit alpha native plugin which is manually downloadable as the 64bit ubuntu still uses nspluginwrapper + 32bit flash.

Glad you got the gold though :D

Wow it helped me too, thanks Vu Do Quynh. Maaan ubuntu 9.10 is worse than dealing with Windows Vista

Only because its a new OS to you, you probably have many years of experience with Windows and not much with Linux so a comparison is not hugely fair. If you had the same amount of experience with Linux you would find it very easy to use.

Seems to work for me too :-). thanks

Can somebody let me know how to install now adobe flash plugins in karmic so that my videos and other flash application works ?

Able to install adobe :-). thanks

The easiest solution was to add the partner repo of Canonical:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu CODENAME partner

And then aptitude update and install the bugger.