Thread: It's been a day and a half since I've first try to get flash on firefox.

this should have been simple, it's been such process, process going through in terminal.

~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
reading package lists... done
building dependency tree
reading state information... done
following packages installed:
flashplugin-installer
suggested packages:
xulrunner-1.9 konqueror-nsplugins msttcorefonts ttf-bitstream-vera
ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
following new packages installed:
flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 remove , 128 not upgraded.
need 0b/22.9kb of archives.
after operation, 233kb of additional disk space used.
want continue [y/n]? y
preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: failed in buffer_read(fd): copy info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available': input/output error
e: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (2)
~$ sudo apt-get install alsa-oss
reading package lists... done
building dependency tree
reading state information... done
following new packages installed:
alsa-oss
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 remove , 128 not upgraded.
need 32.1kb of archives.
after operation, 156kb of additional disk space used.
get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe alsa-oss 1.0.17-3 [32.1kb]
fetched 32.1kb in 0s (42.5kb/s)
dpkg: failed in buffer_read(fd): copy info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available': input/output error
e: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (2)

how fix error?

run:

sudo dpkg --clear-avail
sudo apt-get update

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