Install of firefox on 5.04 fails w/ error regarding update-mozilla-firefox-chrome

[Travis Spencer]

I can't get firefox to install on ubuntu 5.04.  I've tried using
synaptic and apt-get.  Neither work.  It always fails with this error:

Updating mozilla-firefox chrome
registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-firefox-chrome: line 106: 12402
Illegal in struction     firefox-bin -register >/dev/null 2>&1

Here is a typescript of one of my attempts:

tspencer at plum:~$ sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
tspencer at plum:~$ sudo rm -fr /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox
tspencer at plum:~$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  mozilla-firefox-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts xprt-xprintorg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mozilla-firefox
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8801kB of archives.
After unpacking 24.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/main mozilla-firefox
1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1 [8801kB]
Fetched 8801kB in 2m13s (65.7kB/s)

Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package mozilla-firefox.
(Reading database ... 57055 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mozilla-firefox (from
.../mozilla-firefox_1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up mozilla-firefox (1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1) ...
Updating mozilla-firefox chrome
registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-firefox-chrome: line 106: 12402
Illegal in struction     firefox-bin -register >/dev/null 2>&1
E: Registration process existed with status: 132
E: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions/installed-extensions.txt still
present. Registration might have gone wr ong.
mv: cannot stat `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/defaults.ini': No such file
or directory
dpkg: error processing mozilla-firefox (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  mozilla-firefox
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
tspencer at plum:~$ bash -n /usr/sbin/update-mozilla-firefox-chrome

Any help or suggestions would be *much* appreciated.  TIA!

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Regards,

Travis Spencer