Package is in a very bad inconsistent state

Question

I have Ubuntu 13.10 on my desktop.I wanted to install the "D-Link DWR-730" 3G modem drivers, but the default autoplay software for Ubuntu says "kernel not supported" for this.

I ran the dpkg -i command to install the .dep files manually, but after this every apt-get command returns an error and tells me to run apt-get -f install to correct this.

I ran apt-get -f install, but it still returns an error, and I can't install anything from apt-get. The apt-get error is as follows:

Errors were encountered while processing: flashplugin-installer E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I ran apt-get remove flashplugin-installer, but that also returns an error.

sudo apt-get -f install gives the following output:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done 
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/7,008 B of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. 
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure): Package is in a very bad
inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Errors were encountered while processing: flashplugin-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Solution 1

remove flash plugin completely and restart your work

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq  flashplugin-installer

Then you could try to install it again:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Solution 2

I tried many things and then this worked!

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all (packagename)

even after this if your problem is not solved then find all the files in /var/lib named with your package name as a prefix and use

sudo chmod 777 filename

with all of them and then create a copy of them (in case if something goes wrong) and then use

sudo rm filename

to delete of them and then run this again

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all gcc-4.8-base:i386

Comments

[Avinash Raj]

post the whole output of sudo apt-get install -f in your question.

[Hossein]

i forget to say i run all commands with root user.

[Avinash Raj]

it's not the problem.Please post the whole output of sudo apt-get install -f in your question.

[Hossein]

up post edited.

[Avinash Raj]

it won't work my friend.

[Hossein]

yes, don't work and still say :

[Hossein]

flashplugin-installer E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[kamil]

@Hossein have you tried the answer after edit?

[Hossein]

No but now run new command and the flashplugin problem sloved.thanks

[kamil]

@Hossein Welcome my dear, don't forget to mark it as answer

[Hossein]

thanks but i don't know to select you or mr.Avinash Raj? because i used one command from you and one command from mr.Avinash Raj.

[kamil]

@Hossein My answer was written before him. it's simple as that. and I solved the problem. Then I added how to install it again