peter@peter-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: adobe-flashplugin 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1737 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 10.2 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 290121 files and directories currently installed.) Removing adobe-flashplugin ... update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for iceape-flashplugin. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for iceape-flashplugin. dpkg: error processing adobe-flashplugin (--remove): 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: adobe-flashplugin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)