On Sunday 12 June 2016 15:37:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:08:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 2 > > > firefox > > > firefox-esr > > > And esr is a version 45 something, figuratively speaking, a few > > > months long in the tooth. > > > > They are different. Uninstall the one you don't want. esr is long > > term support. > > > > # aptitude purge firefox-esr > > (since that seems to be the one you don't want). Or equivalent. I > > don't know the correct apt-get incantation for purge, and as you > > probably wouldn't use it, I won't for now bother looking it up. In > > Synaptic you probably find it in the installed list, and tick* it for > > removal. > > > > Lisi > > * "tick" - across-the-pond-speak for one of the meanings of "check" > > Its a multiple choice popup. Here I would select the remove, but either > one tears the system down with the deps it would also remove. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
So use aptitude: root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# aptitude -s purge firefox-esr The following packages will be REMOVED: firefox-esr{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 97.4 MB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: iceweasel : Depends: firefox-esr but it is not going to be installed. firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb : Depends: firefox-esr (>= 45.2.0esr-1~deb7u1) but it is not going to be installed. Depends: firefox-esr (< 45.2.0esr-1~deb7u1.1~) but it is not going to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb 2) iceweasel 3) iceweasel-l10n-en-gb Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies. Abort. root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# (Done with Konsole on a very large screen, black on white, 17 point Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.) (-s means show me what you would do - but don't actually do it. I may actually do it now. I'll see.) Lisi