Recent Firefox security update

[joschi]

Hi.
Thats right, I know the problem too, the package "firefox", that
conflicts with "mozilla-firefox" is at the backports-archive on 
deb http://acm.cs.umn.edu/ubp hoary-backports .
I found the problem 2 months ago, at least i'm not alone :).

i've noticed, that the backports-repository contains a package, called
"mozilla-firefox", too. this one depends on firefox.
remove the mozilla-firefox package first. the firefox-packages (and
probably some others, try to reinstall them afterwards) should be
uninstalled automatically. 
then reinstall "mozilla-firefox" again, and make sure you get it from
the ubuntu-security repository.
to make sure, that this (hopefully) will never happen again, go to the
synaptic preferences, there select "distribution" above and "prefer
versions from: hoary-security".
i hope that helps, for me it worked.


best wishes,
josef gosch

Am Freitag, den 23.09.2005, 17:33 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:17:32PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > The security update failed to install and broke my existing firefox. 
> > Here is the "apt-get upgrade" output:
> [...]
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
> > (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic',
> > which is also in package firefox
> 
> Why do you have a 'firefox' package installed at all in Hoary?
> mozilla-firefox wasn't renamed to firefox until after Hoary released, so
> this must be a poorly-created backport.
> 
> I suggest removing firefox, firefox-dom-inspector, and
> firefox-gnome-support, and trying the upgrade again.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
>