Adobe Flash

[DaCalebMan]

How do I manually uninstall Adobe Flash?
I can't open synaptic to find the directories it's installed in.

It gives me this error:
E: The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

What do I do? I have this strange message in the top of my screen (see screenshot)

Please help,
~Caleb

[Kieren]

You forgot to attach your screen shot

You can get a list of all the currently installed packages with the command dpkg –get-selections. You can narrow down the selection with a grep to see any with the name flash in like so:

dpkg –get-selections | grep flash

What is the output of that?

[DaCalebMan]

Sorry bout that!

here it is.
I got this output:

caleb@caleb-desktop:~$ dpkg –get-selections | grep flash
dpkg: need an action option

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages[*];
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL)[*].

Options marked[*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !
caleb@caleb-desktop:~$

[DaCalebMan]

The thing is,

How do you uninstall programs manually?
Last time I tried, Ubuntu recognized no change. Just an even more faulty package.

Or maybe, I should try to reinstall it.

[Kieren]

Well it seems the command Google gave me is no good then...

Anyway, if you installed a program using a package manager (such as synaptic) then you will need to use the package manager to uninstall it again. Manually deleting files will cause the package manager to become confused

What have you done to get into your current state? How did you install flash? What steps have you taken to attempt to remove it?

[teenytinylinuxgrl]

Try reinstalling it, and I think I would check to make sure the repositories are all correct too.

If Synaptic won't work, try the Add and Remove feature (under system tools).

Amy