Package ‘adobe-flashplugin’ is Virtual when installing Flash on Firefox or Chrome – Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 64

Trying to install Flash on Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit fails with the error

Package ‘adobe-flashplugin’ is Virtual

I managed to install it with the following pasted into terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

Posted on June 8, 2010 at 9:36 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink
In: Ubuntu Tricks · Tagged with: Chrome, Firefox, Flash, Lucid Lynx 10.04

6 Responses

Written by Paul
on June 18, 2010 at 8:39 am
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Thank you ! It was helpfull
Written by Colin
on June 30, 2010 at 7:40 pm
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Many thanks! I had been scratching my head over this one for several weeks now – all sorted now!
Written by Meisam
on June 30, 2010 at 8:09 pm
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Thanks…that worked for me also, big help
Written by gopi
on July 5, 2010 at 1:04 am
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Thank you very much. Worked for me as well.
Written by armando padilla
on July 9, 2010 at 4:10 pm
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Awesome! lifesaver. This was driving me nuts.
Written by j
on July 18, 2010 at 2:15 pm
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Thank You!