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apt show flashplugin-nonfree
Package: flashplugin-nonfree
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:3.1
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/web
Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 180 k
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, gnupg, libatk1.0-0, libcairo2,
         libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libgcc1, libglib2.0-0, libgtk2.0-0 (>=
         2.14), libnspr4, libnss3, libpango1.0-0, libstdc++6, libx11-6,
         libxext6, libxt6, libcurl3-gnutls, binutils
Suggests: iceweasel, konqueror-nsplugins, ttf-mscorefonts-installer, ttf-dejavu,
          ttf-xfree86-nonfree, hal
Conflicts: flashplayer-mozilla, flashplayer-mozilla, flashplugin (< 6),
           flashplugin (< 6), libflash-mozplugin, libflash-mozplugin, xfs (<
           1:1.0.1-5), xfs (< 1:1.0.1-5), flashplugin-nonfree
Replaces: flashplugin (< 6), flashplugin (< 6)
Description: Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
 This package will download the Flash Player from Adobe.  It is a
 Netscape/Mozilla type plugin.  Any browser based on Netscape or Mozilla can use
 the Flash Player.  This package currently supports the following browsers:
 Mozilla, Mozilla-Firefox, Firefox, Iceweasel, and Iceape.  Also Galeon and
 Epiphany can use the Flash Player.  Konqueror can also use the Flash Player if
 konqueror-nsplugins is installed. 
 
 WARNING: Installing this Debian package causes the Adobe Flash Player to be
 downloaded from www.adobe.com. The End User License Agreement of the Adobe
 Flash Player is available at www.adobe.com.
Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer

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apt install flashplugin-nonfree

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$ apt install flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 acroread:i386 : Depends: acroread-debian-files:i386 (>= 9.4.6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

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$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libgmp10:i386 libmpc2:i386 libmpfr4:i386
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  acroread-debian-files:i386
Recommended packages:
  mime-support:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  acroread-debian-files:i386
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/15.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 101 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 278285 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking acroread-debian-files (from .../acroread-debian-files_9.5.4_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_9.5.4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/acroread', which is also in package adobereader-enu 9.5.1
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_9.5.4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread-debian-files_9.5.4_i386.deb

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apt install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree