Recent Firefox security update

[Art Alexion]

josef,

Worked great!  Thank you.  I had tried removing firefox , but that
didn't work.  Your method worked fine.  Also, I was able to uninstall
the gnome integration which I couldn't do before because the backports
firefox depended on them.

joschi wrote:

>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:
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>>On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:17:32PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
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>>>The security update failed to install and broke my existing firefox. 
>>>Here is the "apt-get upgrade" output:
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>>[...]
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>>>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]
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