Cannot install flashplayer-plugin
Installing other packages will result in the same fashion
debguy:~# aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
flashplayer-mozilla
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3927kB of archives. After unpacking 10.0MB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.tw.debian.org lenny/main flashplayer-mozilla 1:10.0.12.36-0.2 [3927kB]
Fetched 3927kB in 29s (134kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package flashplayer-mozilla.
(Reading database ... 88215 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplayer-mozilla (from .../flashplayer-mozilla_1%3a10.0.12.36-0.2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flashplayer-mozilla (1:10.0.12.36-0.2) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing flashplayer-mozilla (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplayer-mozilla
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up flashplayer-mozilla (1:10.0.12.36-0.2) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing flashplayer-mozilla (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplayer-mozilla
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
I don't know if this related to my repos, so here's my sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
# KDE 4 backport
deb http://kde4.debian.net/ lenny main
# Main mirror
deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian lenny main non-free contrib
# Multimedia
deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-multimedia/ lenny main
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Regards,
Umarzuki Mochlis
http://gameornot.net
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