If anyone out there read my request, it is now sorted. (Physician heal thy self- well with a little help from the form.) This is the magic spell I found:<br>sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm<br>
sudo dpkg-reconfigure adobe-flashplugin --force<br>
sudo dpkg --purge --force-all adobe-flashplugin<br clear="all"><br>With thanks to someone called <br><div class="username">Donnchad<br><br>Thanks anyway<br>Howard<br></div>-- <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>