Nolwandle
May 4th, 2010, 10:37 PM
Hi
I managed to upgrade from Karmic to Lucid, but then a serious operator error seems to have occured.
It seems that I have uninstalled Firefox but cannot reinstall it. Below is what I get when I try to reinstall.
All assistance greatfully received.
Nolwandle, Cape Town, South Africa
max@max-laptop:~$ firefox -safe-mode
The program 'firefox' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install firefox
max@max-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
[sudo] password for max:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libdns46 libgtk1.2-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
firefox-branding
Suggested packages:
firefox-gnome-support kmozillahelper latex-xft-fonts
The following packages will be REMOVED:
firefox-mozilla-build
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firefox firefox-branding
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/11.1MB of archives.
After this operation, 29.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 216500 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing firefox-mozilla-build ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
when removing `diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu by firefox-mozilla-build'
found `local diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu'
dpkg: error processing firefox-mozilla-build (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
firefox-mozilla-build
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
max@max-laptop:
I managed to upgrade from Karmic to Lucid, but then a serious operator error seems to have occured.
It seems that I have uninstalled Firefox but cannot reinstall it. Below is what I get when I try to reinstall.
All assistance greatfully received.
Nolwandle, Cape Town, South Africa
max@max-laptop:~$ firefox -safe-mode
The program 'firefox' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install firefox
max@max-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
[sudo] password for max:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libdns46 libgtk1.2-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
firefox-branding
Suggested packages:
firefox-gnome-support kmozillahelper latex-xft-fonts
The following packages will be REMOVED:
firefox-mozilla-build
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firefox firefox-branding
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/11.1MB of archives.
After this operation, 29.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 216500 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing firefox-mozilla-build ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
when removing `diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu by firefox-mozilla-build'
found `local diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu'
dpkg: error processing firefox-mozilla-build (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
firefox-mozilla-build
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
max@max-laptop: