[Bug 512937] Re: [MASTER] package firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1failed to install/upgrade: update-alternatives: error:alternative path /usr/bin/firefox doesn't exist.

[Achilles]

Yes, that has worked for me too, in this and previous upgrades. In my case, the origin of the problem was the ubuntuzilla installation I made long time ago, and that I have not been able to completely uninstall since the first time I experienced this problem with a firefox upgrade.   Any idea on how to find the ubuntuzilla remains and get rid of them?
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From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:51:10 
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Reply-To: Bug 512937 <512937 at bugs.launchpad.net>
Subject: [Bug 512937] Re: [MASTER] package firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
	failed to install/upgrade: update-alternatives: error:
	alternative path /usr/bin/firefox doesn't exist.

Ran into the issue again with updating to FF 3.6.6.

Setting up firefox (3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/bin/firefox doesn't exist.
dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

The problem is from the previous symlinks:
$ ls -al /usr/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2010-04-27 12:09 /usr/bin/firefox -> /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.3/firefox.sh

and

$ ls -al firefox.ubuntu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2010-06-29 20:35 firefox.ubuntu -> ../lib/firefox-3.6.6/firefox.sh

So I rm'ed /usr/bin/firefox and 
$ sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu /usr/bin/firefox
$ ls -al fire*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2010-06-29 20:35 firefox -> ../lib/firefox-3.6.6/firefox.sh

Following that the upgrade to 3.6.6. worked.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100628 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.6

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[MASTER] package firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/bin/firefox doesn't exist.
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Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: firefox

Upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04.

Setting up firefox (3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/bin/firefox doesn't exist.
dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 26 13:53:12 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: firefox
Title: package firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686


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