Remov­ing adobe-flashplugin

16 Responses to Remov­ing adobe-flashplugin

1. Thomas F says:

   September 13, 2009 at 01:27

   Thanks so much. This was a bet­ter solu­tion than all 5 top posts on google. Your fix was the quick­est, and easiest.

   Thanks again..
2. frederic triquet says:

   September 13, 2009 at 15:35

   thanks a lot !!!
3. Martin says:

   October 23, 2009 at 18:09

   Thank you very much. This was easy and fast help.
4. Matthew says:

   October 31, 2009 at 01:04

   Yeah! You rule!
5. jess says:

   October 31, 2009 at 04:54

   +1 Yes! Thank you very much.
6. Terry says:

   November 2, 2009 at 00:34

   Cool, this fixed the cor­rup­ted dpkg data­base status issue for me. Thanks!
7. adam says:

   November 3, 2009 at 20:41

   dpkg –force-all –remove adobe-flashplugin
   dpkg: oper­a­tion requires read/write access to dpkg status area

   That what i get When i put in your last com­mand in ter­minal Please HELP!!!
8. ixti says:

   November 3, 2009 at 20:48

   @adam:

   Seems like your dpkg status area is locked by another pro­cess (e.g. apt-get or aptitude installing/updating/removing) or you don’t have rights. You have to run it with root priv­ileges. If you still hav­ing prob­lems, you can con­tact me via xmpp:zapparov@jabber.ru or via irc:ixti@freenode.net
9. Ali says:

   November 4, 2009 at 16:51

   How to run with root priv­ileges? have same prob­lem as Adam…
   thanks
10. Carlo says:

    November 5, 2009 at 22:04

    Won­der­ful!
    Really Really Thank You!
11. Joseph says:

    November 12, 2009 at 04:27

    Thanks for the post. On my Debian test­ing install, I wasn’t able to fix this prob­lem immediately:

    # dpkg –force-all –remove adobe-flashplugin
    dpkg: warn­ing: over­rid­ing prob­lem because –force enabled:
    Pack­age is in a very bad incon­sist­ent state — you should
    rein­stall it before attempt­ing a removal.
    (Read­ing data­base … 142017 files and dir­ect­or­ies cur­rently installed.)
    Remov­ing adobe-flashplugin …
    update-alternatives: error: no altern­at­ives for iceape-flashplugin.
    update-alternatives: error: no altern­at­ives for iceape-flashplugin.
    dpkg: error pro­cessing adobe-flashplugin (–remove):
    sub­pro­cess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
    postinst called with argu­ment ‘abort-remove’
    dpkg: error while clean­ing up:
    sub­pro­cess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while pro­cessing:
    adobe-flashplugin

    So I moved the prerm script out of the way:

    # mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm-DISABLED

    Then the com­mand worked. Thanks!
12. ixti says:

    November 12, 2009 at 20:11

    @Ali

    All com­mands have to be run with root priv­ileges. This means that either every single com­mand should be pre­fixed with ‘sudo ‘ com­mand or you have to get root priv­ileges per­man­ently with ‘su‘.

    Another thing which can cause this prob­lem is that some­thing is block­ing /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm file. For example you have opened this file for edit­ing in mc and for­got to close.

    Any­way I can’t tell for sure. I need more details. So if you’ll con­tact me, I’ll try to fig­ure prob­lem out, so then I’ll update a post with pos­sible prob­lem in mind.
13. Soulless says:

    November 13, 2009 at 12:40

    Solved the prob­lem. Thanks a lot!
14. winter says:

    November 28, 2009 at 14:36

    Thanks a lot))))) Joseph’s answer helped to solve prob­lem finally)
    
15. Rodrigo says:

    December 3, 2009 at 22:24

    Thanks a lot!!
16. expmux says:

    May 22, 2010 at 15:03

    good job !
    and long life to wordpress :-)