On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:13:15 +1000 Craig Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some how during an apt-get upgrade, (see attached) I broken Firefox > and I don't know how to repair what has happened. > > Any suggestions? There are a couple of threads on the Ubuntu forum about this. My update worked w/o any problem. www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=68530 www.ubuntuforums.org/sho...ead.php?p=367285 Cheers, Alan > > Craig > > > $sudo apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > The following packages will be upgraded: > mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support > 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/8856kB of archives. > After unpacking 24.7MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 80002 files and directories currently > installed.) Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox > 1.0.6-1ubuntu1~5.04ubp1 (using > .../mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking > replacement mozilla-firefox ... dpkg: error > processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite > `/var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic', > which is also in package firefox > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox-gnome-support > 1.0.6-1ubuntu1~5.04ubp1 > (using .../mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) > ... Unpacking replacement mozilla-firefox-gnome-support ... > dpkg: error > processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0. > 1_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite > `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libmozgnome.so', which is also in > package firefox-gnome-support > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb > /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0 > .1_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 428 148 071 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
