[USN-149-2] Fixed Firefox packages for USN-149-1

[Kevin C. Smith]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 20:12 -0400, Scott J. Henson wrote:
> ( Rocco ) wrote:
> 
> >When I try to upgrade, I get the error bellow. Also, I have no firefox
> >at all now, the older version wouldn't start either. Thank you guys
> >for all you do.
> >
> >Preconfiguring packages ...
> >(Reading database ... 71687 files and directories currently installed.)
> >Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-1ubuntu3~5.04ubp5 (using
> >.../mozilla-firefox_1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
> >Unpacking replacement mozilla-firefox ...
> >dpkg: error processing
> >/var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
> >(--unpack):
> > trying to overwrite
> >`/var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic', which is also in
> >package firefox
> >dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> >Errors were encountered while processing:
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
> >E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> That would be your own fault, not the nice people of Ubuntu.  You seem
> to have a package called firefox installed that is blocking the install
> of the official Ubuntu mozilla-firefox.  Simply uninstall firefox and
> mozilla-firefox should install fine.  Please remember that using
> unofficial sources can always break your system in unexpected ways. 

Second that. This is a backports issue. I use backports, however I feel
they should not backport packages in Ubuntu main. That said you can fix 
this like so:

sudo apt-get remove firefox mozilla-firefox firefox-gnome-support
mozilla-firefox-gnome-support

Respond (Y)es to the remove extra packages question then:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

and you will be okay.

-- 
Kevin C. Smith