<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Dne 27.8.2011 0:42, piše NoOp: <blockquote cite="mid:j397hd$c2m$1@dough.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 08/26/2011 11:03 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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). </pre> </blockquote> 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 </body> </html>