sudo aptitude reinstall flashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done The following packages will be REINSTALLED: flashplugin-nonfree The following partially installed packages will be configured: nspluginwrapper 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 56 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. E: I wasn't able to locate file for the flashplugin-nonfree package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. Writing extended state information... Done E: I wasn't able to locate file for the flashplugin-nonfree package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download