[SOLVED] Problem reinstalling Firefox.
Dejan Ribič
dejan.ribic at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 09:18:36 UTC 2011
Dne 27.8.2011 0:42, piše NoOp:
> On 08/26/2011 11:03 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've used to have GNU IceCat installed ( removed FF completely )
>> today I decided to reinstall Firefox: but I get the next errors:
>>
>> Setting up firefox (6.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1) ...
>> update-alternatives: error: readlink(/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser)
>> failed: Invalid argument
>> dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
>> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-globalmenu:
>> firefox-globalmenu depends on firefox (=
>> 6.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1); however:
>> Package firefox is not configured yet.
>>
>> I already tried the usual *sudo apt-get install -f* and *sudo dpkg
>> --configure -a* , but I get the same output as above.
>> Can somebody please help me?
> Try:
>
> $ sudo apt-get clean
> for details:
> $ man apt-get
> Note: you can also try '$ sudo apt-get build-depends
>
> Also what do you currently show for:
> $ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> you should get some valid choices:
> $ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> There are 9 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing
> /usr/bin/x-www-browser).
>
> Selection Path Priority Status
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 0 /usr/bin/google-chrome 200
> auto mode
> * 1 /home/<user>/Seamonkey2.3/seamonkey/seamonkey 20
> manual mode
> 2 /usr/bin/chromium-browser 40
> manual mode
> 3 /usr/bin/epiphany-browser 85
> manual mode
> 4 /usr/bin/firefox 40
> manual mode
> 5 /usr/bin/google-chrome 200
> manual mode
> 6 /usr/bin/konqueror 100
> manual mode
> 7 /usr/bin/opera 200
> manual mode
> 8 /usr/bin/seamonkey21 130
> manual mode
> 9 /usr/bin/seamonkey22 130
> manual mode
>
> Note: Mine is a little unusual as I have multiple installs& manual
> preferences set (using /usr/sbin/galternatives).
>
>
>
Hi,
thank you for your help, after an unsuccesful config with
update-alternatives, I decided to do an ls -l /etc/alternatives/, and I
found that x-www-browser wasn't a link, for some reason it was an
ordinary file(and empty one at that) so i decided to delete it, then i
ran *sudo apt-get install -f *again and voila everything worked.
Cheers,
Dejan
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