problem installing firefox in 12.10

[Uriah Heep]

Thanks used muon to delete firefox then terminal sudo agt-get install
firefox and it worked like a charm.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Thomas Tanghus Olsen <thomas at tanghus.net>wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 May 2013 22:54 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:24:01 PM Uriah Heep wrote:
> > > when trying to install firefox on a fresh install of 12.10 I get the
> > > following error and need some help with it
> > >
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_20.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.3_amd64.deb
> > >
> > > Error: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop',
> > > which
> > > is also in package kubuntu-firefox-installer 12.04ubuntu1
> >
> > Uninstall kubuntu-firefox-installer and then install firefox.
>  Alternately,
> > use the Kubuntu Firefox Installer.  Either way should work.
>
> Recently did a 12.10 install too, and it was actually Kubuntu Firefox
> Installer that triggered the above error. I was in a hurry, so did a
> dpkg -i --force on the package.
>
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>
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