How Do I Dowload and Install This Package

[anonprivate]

I received the following message (given in the image)

Can anyone tell me how install the files.

I clicked on the box, a console appeared, but nothing further happened.

I give an image of the box

[elijathegold]

You could try running sudo apt reinstall flashplugin-installer directly from the terminal. At the very least, it may give you more error information to go on.

[anonprivate]

You could try running sudo apt reinstall flashplugin-installer directly from the terminal. At the very least, it may give you more error information to go on.

Thank you for responding. I have a question. I checked using man apt and I do not see the option reinstall!

[elijathegold]

$ apt help
apt
Usage: apt command [options]
       apt help command [options]

Commands:
add-repository  - Add entries to apt sources.list
autoclean       - Erase old downloaded archive files
autoremove      - Remove automatically all unused packages
build           - Build binary or source packages from sources
build-dep       - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
changelog       - View a package's changelog
check           - Verify that there are no broken dependencies
clean           - Erase downloaded archive files
contains        - List packages containing a file
content         - List files contained in a package
deb             - Install a .deb package
depends         - Show raw dependency information for a package
dist-upgrade    - Perform an upgrade, possibly installing and removing packages
download        - Download the .deb file for a package
dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections
held            - List all held packages
help            - Show help for a command
hold            - Hold a package
install         - Install/upgrade packages
policy          - Show policy settings
purge           - Remove packages and their configuration files
recommends      - List missing recommended packages for a particular package
rdepends        - Show reverse dependency information for a package
[COLOR=#ff0000]reinstall       - Download and (possibly) reinstall a currently installed package[/COLOR]
remove          - Remove packages
search          - Search for a package by name and/or expression
show            - Display detailed information about a package
source          - Download source archives
sources         - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list with nano
unhold          - Unhold a package
update          - Download lists of new/upgradable packages
upgrade         - Perform a safe upgrade
version         - Show the installed version of a package
                        This apt has Super Cow Powers

I am running Mint on this computer at the moment so it may be a different version.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer

should work.

[anonprivate]

$ apt help
apt
Usage: apt command [options]
       apt help command [options]

Commands:
add-repository  - Add entries to apt sources.list
autoclean       - Erase old downloaded archive files
autoremove      - Remove automatically all unused packages
build           - Build binary or source packages from sources
build-dep       - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
changelog       - View a package's changelog
check           - Verify that there are no broken dependencies
clean           - Erase downloaded archive files
contains        - List packages containing a file
content         - List files contained in a package
deb             - Install a .deb package
depends         - Show raw dependency information for a package
dist-upgrade    - Perform an upgrade, possibly installing and removing packages
download        - Download the .deb file for a package
dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections
held            - List all held packages
help            - Show help for a command
hold            - Hold a package
install         - Install/upgrade packages
policy          - Show policy settings
purge           - Remove packages and their configuration files
recommends      - List missing recommended packages for a particular package
rdepends        - Show reverse dependency information for a package
[COLOR=#ff0000]reinstall       - Download and (possibly) reinstall a currently installed package[/COLOR]
remove          - Remove packages
search          - Search for a package by name and/or expression
show            - Display detailed information about a package
source          - Download source archives
sources         - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list with nano
unhold          - Unhold a package
update          - Download lists of new/upgradable packages
upgrade         - Perform a safe upgrade
version         - Show the installed version of a package
                        This apt has Super Cow Powers

I am running Mint on this computer at the moment so it may be a different version.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer

should work.

I see

andrew@andrew-Dell-DM061:~$ apt help
apt 1.0.1ubuntu2 for i386 compiled on May 18 2016 09:49:01

Usage: apt [options] command

CLI for apt.
Basic commands:
list - list packages based on package names
search - search in package descriptions
show - show package details

update - update list of available packages

install - install packages
remove - remove packages

upgrade - upgrade the system by installing/upgrading packages
full-upgrade - upgrade the system by removing/installing/upgrading packages

edit-sources - edit the source information file
andrew@andrew-Dell-DM061:~$

For me it looks like using:

Usage: apt [options] command

apt --reinstall install flashplugin-installer

Assuming the option reinstall exists in kubuntu

[elijathegold]

The apt-get command posted above will re-install. I believe apt is a replacement for the older apt-get and apt-cache.

[anonprivate]

The apt-get command posted above will re-install. I believe apt is a replacement for the older apt-get and apt-cache.

The command
sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-installer

Seems to have worked. I would have preferred to put the options before the command i.e. sudo apt-get --reinstall install flashplugun-installer

I would expect this to work.

I also used autoremove to tidy things up a bit.

Now for a reboot.

Best wishes

[elijathegold]

The --reinstall option is for the install command. It does look wrong though.