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: Read the rest of this entry »