firefox 1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386 update error

Duncan Lithgow duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk
Sat Sep 24 09:16:33 UTC 2005


Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> I believe this issue comes up when you've tried to use backports.
> Ubuntu's official package is mozilla-firefox, while the latest
> backports one is just firefox. Maybe try apt-get remove firefox, 

That didn't help - here's the output, any ideas?

username at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove firefox
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support
Suggested packages:
   latex-xft-fonts xprt-xprintorg
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   firefox firefox-gnome-support
The following packages will be upgraded:
   mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/8856kB of archives.
After unpacking 754kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 80026 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox 1.0.6-1ubuntu1~5.04ubp1 (using 
.../mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mozilla-firefox ...
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
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox-gnome-support 
1.0.6-1ubuntu1~5.04ubp1 (using 
.../mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mozilla-firefox-gnome-support ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
  trying to overwrite 
`/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libmozgnome.so', which is also in 
package firefox-gnome-support
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.debE: 
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)






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