Greetings,<br>I have been away and therefore not been following the mailing list, so forgive me if this problem has been solved.<br>I installed Karmic over the weekend and then yesterday I had the bad idea of trying to listen to radio 4 on my system. I was directed to Adobe's site and down loaded the flash plugin. Woe is me for I then descended into a maze that always ended in the same place- not where I wanted to be.<br>
Synaptic came up with the following message. ( And it still has nothing further to add )<br><br>E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.<br>E: Internal error opening cache<br>
<br>Then, I received an error icon in the task bar which suggested that I run the Update Manager. Once it was opened it suggested a 'Partial Upgrade' to repair the issue and I selected 'Yes'. This is the message I received:<br>
<br>Remove package in bad state<br><br>The package 'adobe-flashplugin' is in an inconsistent state and needs to be reinstalled, but no archive can be found for it. Do you want to remove this package now to continue?<br>
<br>When I select 'Yes' I receive the following error message after Update Manager attempts to resolve the problem:<br><br>Package in inconsistent state<br><br>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.<br>
<br>When I tried to remove the plugin package Synaptic repeats the error message and then closes so I cannot uninstall it. I have also tried using apt but it refuses to uninstall the package.<br>I got this message:<br>E: Unknown Error: '<type 'exceptions.SystemError'>'(E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.)<br>
run parts: /etc/update-motd.d/90-updates-available exited with return code 255<br><br><br>Do I have to do a complete re-install?!<br clear="all">Howard<br>-- <br>Supporting Open Source Software.<br><a href="http://www.fsf.org/">http://www.fsf.org/</a><br>
And Open Standards<br><a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/who/">http://www.oasis-open.org/who/</a><br>