Ok, let's try this...
:~$ 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 1 not upgraded.

Looks cool.  Oh, wait, he used aptitude, I might as well check that.
:~$ sudo aptitude install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      
The following packages have been kept back:
  hplip-data 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done

Wow.  Definitely different.  Not what you posted, but not fixed.
I'll check to see if there is some duplicate of this out there...

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