Like farslayer stated Never ever install ubuntu packages on a debian system. It is bad enough mixing releases.

Flash, java are in the debian repos.

Well - it happend to me too, downloading the .deb installation file from the Adobe site. They didn't mention which flavour of Debian the .deb was for.

The above mentioned solution does the job!

Greetz
Jan

I will never understand why people insist on trying to download packages from various sites . In the 5 years I have ran Debian Sid I have yet had to resort to searching the web for a package. Nor have I have to compile a package from source other than madwifi and Nvidia drivers, and for nvidia/ati I recommend using smxi.

If you are running stable, the normal debian repo, security, volatile, backports and debian-multimedia.org will give you access to close to 30k packages. If your running sid; debian, dmm and perhaps sidux will give you about the same.

Even things like Opera, skype, and various Google apps have a repo.

I recently installed Ubuntu using VirtualBox and have run into the same issue that you have described above. I am curious to know which sources in /etc/apt/source are stable releases. After I change that, I can follow the rest of the steps in your subsequent thread.

In case anyone has this issue with Ubuntu-Karmic (I know this is a Debian thread, but the searching for the error message puts this thread at the top of the list) the following fixed the problem for me:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq adobe-flashplugin

...and to give credit where it is due:

Found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...in/+bug/371890
Which referenced: http://forum.ubuntu.cz/index.php/top...html#msg277499

The solution is really simple:
dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -r adobe-flashplugin