Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > Not sure if anyone else has seen this. I just installed Google Chrome > and found that there were about 400 odd updates which I needed to > install. As far as I can tell Chrome installed fine. > > So I went ahead and did the upgrade, however it failed on the > adobe-flashplugin package. > > The output from apt-get is here: http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/m45e4ec2b > > Reading through it, it appears there is a problem with no alternatives > for iceape-flashplugin (which doing a search for I can't find such a > package). > > This is what it comes up with: > > update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for iceape-flashplugin. > update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for iceape-flashplugin. > dpkg: warning: old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 > > I've tried removing adobe-flashplugin, I've tried forcing a removal, > I've tried reinstalling it and I've also tried clearing the apt cache > and re-downloading it but it comes up with the same thing every time. > > I was able to remove Google Chrome but I'm still getting this problem. > Also, not sure if it's related but now Firefox will only give me the > option to search using Ask.com rather than Google. > > So I'm stumped. Other than blatting Ubuntu and reinstalling from > scratch (which I really don't fancy doing, not at least until Karmic is > fully released next week) I'm not sure what do to. > > Anyone got any ideas? > > Ta, > > Rob > Panic over, I found this which fixed it:
http://blog.ixti.ru/archives/6 Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
