Firefox upgrade problem.

[djg9282]

Hi guys...

I'm using hardy and i found out how to install firefox 3.5 through ubuntuzilla where it installs through a script. I cannot get my last upgrade because when i do it never upgrades everything properly. Let me show you.

admin-mode@Gateway-Laptop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox: Depends: firefox-3.5-branding but it is not installed
firefox-3.5: Depends: firefox-3.5-branding but it is not installed or
abrowser-3.5-branding but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
admin-mode@Gateway-Laptop:~$

And then i also tried that solution found above...

admin-mode@Gateway-Laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
firefox-3.5-branding
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firefox-3.5-branding
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
31 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/157kB of archives.
After this operation, 291kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 117416 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firefox-3.5-branding (from .../firefox-3.5-branding_3.5.3~hg20090816r2 6247+nobinonly-0ubuntu2~umd1~hardy_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-3.5-branding_3.5.3~hg2009 0816r26247+nobinonly-0ubuntu2~umd1~hardy_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop', which is also in package firefox-3.0
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-3.5-branding_3.5.3~hg20090816r26247+nobinonly-0 ubuntu2~umd1~hardy_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
admin-mode@Gateway-Laptop:~$



I uninstalled firefox through ubuntuzilla thinking that would work and now firefox won't start up at all. Please help.

I have tried apt-get autoclean and apt-get clean...won't work. Then i tried another solution that suggested i do sudo dpkg --configure -a but that doesn't work either. Any suggestions where i can get this back to normal. It all happened when i was trying to upgrade firefox 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 and in the midst of upgrading that it was also calling for upgrading the kernal and other things...i did not do this upgrade from the ubuntuzilla.py script so maybe that's why it is causing problems?

Dave

[dibl]

Re: Firefox upgrade problem.

i found out how to install firefox 3.5 through ubuntuzilla where it installs through a script

Don't install downloaded packages, until you're 100% sure how to deal with unexpected problems. Use the Ubuntu repositories, and you won't have such issues.

This might work for you:

http://www.ubuntusolutions.org/2009/...-security.html

One of the best features of Debian Linux, including *buntu, is the package management system. One of the worst things you can do is end-run it with downloaded and script installers.

[Snowhog]

Re: Firefox upgrade problem.

Given that you already did what you did, from the CLI try instead:

apt-get dist-upgrade

dist-upgrade is different than upgrade, in that it handles dependencies. See man apt-get and look at the description for upgrade and dist-upgrade to see what each does.