On 10/21/06, Dylan Griffiths <dylang@thock.com> wrote:
> > BTW, for Dapper, you can d/l a DEB of flashplugin-nonfree with said
> > beta from http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/dists/dapper/3v1n0/
>
> dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.21.55-3v1ubuntu1_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
> dpkg: regarding flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.21.55-3v1ubuntu1_i386.deb
> containing flashplugin-nonfree:
> flashplugin-nonfree conflicts with xfs (<< 1:1.0.1-5)
> xfs (version 1:1.0.1-0ubuntu2) is installed.
> dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.21.55-3v1ubuntu1_i386.deb
> (--install):
> conflicting packages - not installing flashplugin-nonfree
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.21.55-3v1ubuntu1_i386.deb
>
> WTF does that mean?
For some reason, the installer doesn't like the fact that you have a
version of the xfs package that is below a certain value...
> How does a media playback plugin for a webrowser conflict with a file
> system?
Actually, in this case, xfs is the "X font server"
> Stupid Debian :/
Its a problem with this third-party package apparently ^_^;
You can always manually install the plugin like this guy did:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1638388&postcount=18
CK
Received on Sat Oct 21 12:41:19 2006
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