[ubuntu-uk] Reluctant update in Dapper

[Neil Greenwood]

On 22/09/06, Caroline Ford <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 21/09/06, Llywelyn Owen <linux at spamtracker.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 21/09/06, Paul Sladen <ubuntu at paul.sladen.org > wrote:
> > > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
> > > > I'm having trouble with updating some packages,
> > > > Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1) ...
> > > > usage: update-rc.d ...
> > > > dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
> > > >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > >
> > > I suspect that the package 'flashplugin-nonfree' is using calling
> > > 'update-rc.d multiuser' without depending on the version that introduced
> > > that extra feature.  This capability was introduced for edgy but is not
> > > available in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
> > >
> > > Indeed, I found the bug report;  opened yesterday and fixed today (with
> 17
> > > duplicates in that time!):
> > >
> > >    https://launchpad.net/bugs/61404
> > >
> > >         -Paul
>
>
> Flash non-free downloads itself after you install. I would try
> redownloading.
>
> Caroline

I've marked about 3 or 4 bugs as duplicates of this.

Caroline, it isn't actually a problem with the Flash non-free
download. As mentioned by Paul there was an error when backporting the
newer version from Edgy.

Llywelyn, it's reasonably easy to fix the bug, if you find the steps
in the forum. It was as simple as something along these lines:

sudo sed 's/multiuser/defaults/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree.postinst
sudo dpkg --configure -a

This will prompt you to re-download the plugin and everything should be fine.


HTH,
Neil.