Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox
$> sudo apt-get install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firefox is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up firefox (2.0.0.12+2nobinonly+2-0ubuntu0.7.10) ...
dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
firefox
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
also, the postinstall script calls for update-desktop-database from the wrong
path:
if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-desktop-database ]; then
/usr/sbin/update-desktop-database
fi
It should read:
if [ -x /usr/bin/update-desktop-database ]; then
/usr/bin/update-desktop-database
fi
$> dpkg -S /usr/bin/update-desktop-database
desktop-file-utils: /usr/bin/update-desktop-database
$> uname -a
Linux zod 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Fri Feb 1 04:59:50 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
$> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 7.10
Release: 7.10
Codename: gutsy
** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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postinstall fails to run
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190212
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