'Important security update' for Firefox and flash plugin, but the update cannot be selected

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Published on 2012-08-02T07:18:13Z Indexed on 2012/09/03 9:49 UTC
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[This question has been updated as I now have the same problem with Firefox in addition to flash plugin]

The update manager (on Ubuntu 12.04, 64bit) shows an 'important security update' for flashplugin-installer:i386, firefox, and firefox-globalmenu. The update is unticked, and cannot be selected, and therefore cannot be updated (I can update other packages without problems). Actually the flashplugin-installer package does not appear to be installed on my computer (judging from the Software Centre). I can't remember how I installed flash, probably directly from the Adobe website. The updater asks me if I want to do a partial upgrade.

When running sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade from terminal, I get the following:

The following packages have been kept back: firefox firefox-globalmenu flashplugin-installer:i386

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