firefox 1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386 update error

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 24/09/05, Spoofhound <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> > Excuse the ignorance, but what's SMP in this context? How did you
> > uninstall it?
>
> Probably means SPM - Synaptic Package Manager.
>

Ah, OK, sorry I just had never seen that acronym before. (There's only
so much I can fit in a 40+-year-old brain -- extra bits fall out the
back.)

I think this whole incident has probably convinced a few more people
to take backports out of their /etc/sources.list file... I'm an old
TAMU/then Slackware/then Red Hat user and found the whole Debian
management system a mystery when I started using it for Warty. I've
previously had to keep my system up-to-date myself,  and got nervous
if I didn't have the latest dot-release of something. It took me a
while, but I'm now used to and trust the Ubuntu Way.

I still jump to the development version about a month prior to release
to help spot any last minute bugs -- and use the newest toys -- so I'm
only ever a few months out of the bleeding edge anyway. The hassle
that happens when dist-upgrading a backport-polluted system (which I
had to do going to Hoary) is just not worth the hassle. I just keep
the ubuntu-* packages, use dpkg-reconfigure to make changes unless
absolutely necessary and experiment with new non-Debian packages and
sources in ~/bin.

-Eamonn

>
>
> There seem to be a few fixes that solve this problem. The thread below
> gives a good overview. I was able to fix it by removing firefox and
> firefox gnome support in synaptic and then reinstalling in synaptic.
> Also had to reinstall yelp and ubuntu-desktop. Some of the posters in
> this thread were able to solve it using the same procedure - see the
> last few posts. Hope it works out
>
>
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=68530
>
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