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I’m running Unbuntu 9.10, and I ran into a problem recently when I installed the adobe-flashplugin package that I downloaded off of the Adobe web site. The package didn’t install correctly, and because of that, Synaptic Package Manager wouldn’t even open, and simply removing the package via the terminal didn’t work either. No matter what I did, I would always end up with the following error:

E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.

It turns out that a lot of people have been having this problem, and it seems to be an issue with the package itself. The package that Adobe provides does not work for many people on Linux, not only that, but it stops up Synaptic until you can manage to remove the corrupt package. After a bit of searching, I found a solution that worked for me:

Open the terminal and type in the following commands:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure adobe-flashplugin –force
sudo dpkg –purge –force-all adobe-flashplugin

After that, if you want to install the Adobe Flash plugin, search for flashplugin-installer in Synaptic, or in the terminal you can type sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

I found this solution, and a couple others that might work at: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1141450.html

I hope this post can help other people in the same predicament!

Please leave a comment to let me know how it worked for you and if you have any other solutions.

Peace,
Brandon