Unable to uninstall flashplugin-installer

[lvaghi]

When I try:

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer

I get:


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
nspluginwrapper
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
flashplugin-installer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 188kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 158395 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing flashplugin-installer ...
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
postinst called with argument `abort-remove'
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
flashplugin-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is there any way to force the removal of flashplugin-installer?

[nujinini]

Hi!

You might want to give the following commands a try.

sudo apt-get remove --purge xxxxxxx

sudo apt-get clean

change xxxxxxx the the package you are trying to remove.

[lvaghi]

Thanks nujinini, I tried your suggestion, but unfortunately with the same result.
Surely I messed up something in my installation, but I am unable to clean up the situation....

[devils casper]

Is apt-get working fine for other packages?

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install htop

Does any command listed above throw error?