[Solved] No upgrade of Flashplayer

[laplume]

Hello,
Trying to upgrade flash player to most recent version available in repos, but output gives following:

Upgrading package flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-i686-1gv -> flash-plugin-11.2.202.285-i686-1gv...
ERROR: Can't create directory over ordinary file. (usr/lib/firefox)
ERROR: Failed to extract file usr/lib/firefox.
ERROR: Package upgrade failed!
Failed to execute command: [/sbin/upgradepkg --reinstall /var/slapt-get/./salix/l/flash-plugin-11.2.202.285-i686-1gv.txz]

Any means t fix it?
Thanks in advance for support.
rgds
Antonio

[gapan]

/usr/lib/firefox should not be a file, it should be a directory and I wonder how you ended up with that. Try:

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# rm /usr/lib/firefox
# slapt-get -i --reinstall mozilla-firefox
# slapt-get -i flash-plugin

[laplume]

/usr/lib/firefox should not be a file, it should be a directory and I wonder how you ended up with that. Try:

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# rm /usr/lib/firefox
# slapt-get -i --reinstall mozilla-firefox
# slapt-get -i flash-plugin

Hello Gapan, the set of commands did the trick. Now Flash is working ok. Sincerely I can't tell how the issue arose. In Virtualbox I worked on a plain full install with no particular tweaks.

I'll mark the thread as solved
Thanks and rgds
Antonio